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Top 10 Cognitive Biases that Affect Strategic Planning

LSA Global

Cognitive Bias and Strategy Planning. There is arguably no more important responsibility of business leaders than to develop a clear, believable, and implementable strategy for their enterprise that will lead to success. New strategies often call for new behaviors and new ways of thinking. Confirmation Bias. Framing Effect.

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Creating Global Digital Empires®

Chad Barr

This framework can be used to construct a short article, podcast or video. The three insights or components I will discuss are strategy, content and marketing. Number one is your strategy. The simple benchmark I use to determine the quality and provocativeness of the content is to analyze the immediate reaction to the content.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

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WalMart Margins Set to Plunge? Will Rest of Retail Follow? What About Jobs?

MishTalk

Retail sales reports on Wednesday have me thinking about the strength of the economy, commercial construction, jobs, and profit margins. Fewer Stores, Less Hiring Fewer stores means less construction and less hiring. Wal-Mart''s same-store sales — an industry benchmark of health — haven''t risen in six quarters.

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Managing Risks and Controlling Projects: How Data-Driven Project Management Come in Useful for Multi-Project Environments

Epicflow

At the same time, cyber risks are peculiar not only to the defense industry, they’re common within medical, IT, construction, and other sectors. It allows project managers to explore different scenarios and their potential impact on project outcomes, helping identify optimal strategies and courses of action.

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Nonfarm Payrolls +113,000, Median Bloomberg Estimate 180,000; Huge March 2013 Employment Revision

MishTalk

The benchmark revision incorporates a large non-economic change that resulted from a reclassification of 466,000 jobs from private households (out of scope by CES definition) to services for the elderly and disabled (in scope for CES). Employment grew in construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, and mining. percent, the U.S.

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How to Transform Positive Thinking into Positive Living

Rick Conlow

P urpose-Clarify and crystallize your beliefs on this one question: How do you want to make a constructive difference in this world? Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of highly successful people? These choices give you POWER over the daily barrage of negativism and pessimism.

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