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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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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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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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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency.

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Singapore Set for Icelandic-Style Property Bubble Meltdown; Hype or Reality?

MishTalk

percent even as the country’s red hot construction sector has been attracting overseas workers, and a growing number of wealthy citizens are hiring domestic helpers from neighboring countries like the Philippines and Indonesia. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'