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Crafting a Strong Strategic Direction: A Blueprint for Success

LSA Global

You will know that you have more work to do if people are uncertain about shared goals or feel pulled in different directions by conflicting priorities or misaligned cultural expectations and metrics for success. Strong strategic alignment creates constructive collaboration for a company to perform at its peak.

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Are You Data-Driven or Data-Informed?

Johanna Rothman

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? If we use agile approaches, does that mean we never have a target?

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Are You Assessing Executive Capabilities to Close Key Gaps?

LSA Global

Personality Traits, Motivation, Learning Agility, and Potential Done right, the proper assessment of leadership competencies and related micro-behaviors tells you about current capabilities. To assess potential, you must use assess specific personality traits, motivation , and learning agility.

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The 3 Pillars of an Effective Data Management Strategy: Monitoring, Tracking, and Reporting

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned

LSA Global

You will know that you are headed in the right direction in terms of strategic clarity facilitation when everyone shares a collective understanding and commitment to the strategic priorities, success metrics, and plans to make it happen. Trust and Accountability Trust forms the cornerstone of effective leadership teams.

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How to Move from Strategy to Action

LSA Global

Agility and a Learning Mindset The 90-day operational road map provides guidelines, but there will inevitably be unforeseen roadblocks. This is when organizational change agility comes into play. Leading and lagging metrics should be relevant, fair, accurate, trusted, meaningful, and timely.