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Business Strategy - Conquering a Culture of Indecision
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BMA Editorial Team
The job of the CEO, everyone knows, is to make decisions. And most of them do - countless times in the course of their tenures. But if those decisions are to have an impact, the organization must also, as a whole, decide to carry them out. Companies that don't, suffer from a culture of indecision.
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Business Strategy - Decisions Without Blinders
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BMA Editorial Team
This article examines the phenomenon of bounded awareness - when cognitive blinders prevent a person from seeing, seeking, using, or sharing highly relevant, easily accessible, and readily perceivable information during the decision-making process.
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Customer Focus Strategy
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Kevin Dwyer
For more than twenty years the mantra in private enterprise and public enterprise has been "customer focus". The phrase appears on mission statements, vision statement and "our values" statements adorning private and public enterprise walls alike.
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Positioning For Success: Who Are You and What Are You Trying To Do?
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Ed Newman
Many managers are looking for an easy fix, a silver bullet that will solve all their marketing problems. Usually what we need to do is the hard work of taking the tried and true, thinking it through and applying it to our own specific circumstances.
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Implementing Strategy: A Balancing Act
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Kevin Dwyer
Strategies often fail in organisations because they are not successfully converted into actions that employees can understand and employ in their everyday work. The measures used to determine whether a strategy is working or not are usually far remov
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Strategic Planning; A Must for all Organisations
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Kevin Dwyer
Strategic planning, the what and the why of planning, is often overlooked by organisations who concentrate on tactical planning, the how of planning. The resultant business plan is overwhelmed by tactical initiatives and pet projects.
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Communication Strategy During A Time Of Strategic Planning
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Lee Hopkins
Planning your internal communication is an essential prerequisite to effective and committed implementation of any business strategy. It also goes a long way towards problem minimisation.
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How to Recognize Your "True" Sales Performance Competencies
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Jeff Hardesty
A self-professed “poor” golfer with a chronic slice might attempt to correct the problem by adjusting his stance - actually aiming away from the fairway so that the slice hopefully lands the ball in the middle.
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Business Strategy - How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance
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BMA Editorial Team
Your organization can become more decisive - and can implement strategy more quickly - if you know where the bottlenecks are and who's empowered to break through them.
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Great CEOs Knife the Competion with Killer Strategy
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Joseph Plazo, Ph.D
Have you just been promoted CEO/Director or General Manager? Congratulations and welcome to the world of strategizing! Now you can doze early, wake late, play golf, cancel meetings and go to Bahamas. On company time!
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How Not to Plan your Company's Future
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Jeff Mowatt
Describes five of the most common methods used to gather customer opinions along with their drawbacks. Reveals how to avoid these pitfalls when planning your business strategy.
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Management Lessons from a Car Wash Guy
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Jeff Mowatt
If you're serious about strengthening customer loyalty, consider this management lesson I learned from an odd source - a car wash attendant. It's an easy customer service concept that may change the course of your business.
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Are your People Problems Really the Issue? Take this Mini-Quiz
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Jeff Mowatt
Most problems involving attitudes and teamwork are actually just symptoms of flawed infrastructures. Let's see if this could be true in your organization.
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Execute Rhythm in Six Steps with an Easy-to-Implement Strategic Planning Process
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James Murphy
In just six steps, you can take your organization from having a loose project timeline to a performance driven framework known as Flawless Execution. Without a disciplined, strategic planning process, tasks are liable to go unfinished and teams are apt to get off track.
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