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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? Its other key stakeholders were distributors; customers-retail; customers-industrial/food service; consumers; and employees. The reason?

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Happy customers are closer than they appear

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We also have finance classes and sales seminars to help people stay as sharp as they can on their skills. If we get a negative customer review, our general managers who lead the store have to deal with it. There’s very little that automotive groups and dealerships can do about these global conditions.

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Stop Doing Low-Value Work

Harvard Business

In the past, time management experts would recommend that you divide up your work into A tasks, B tasks, and C tasks. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules. Doing all aspects of a job seemed possible then, if you just followed some basic time management rules.

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Seth's Blog: The illusion of choice

Seth Godin Blog

The complete list of online retailers. Upcoming seminar/internships » May 27, 2013. Life (and an organization) is difficult to manage if everything is at stake, all the time. Upcoming seminar/internships »' Subscribe to Seths Blog. onramp Branding. SETHS BOOKS. Bonus stuff! All Marketers Tell Stories.

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Alumni updates

Seth Godin Blog

That led me to asking about fifty of them for an update, and without further ado (click each ellipsis for more information): Michelle Welsch crowdfunded money to establish an education center in Nepal that provides language classes, career counseling and weekly seminars. Nicola Gammon continues to grow Shoot to transform the way we garden.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. Working in the family business can be fraught. It always ends badly.