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10 Questions to Sharpen Your Strategic Thinking
- April 2, 2018
- Eric Douglas
Here are 10 questions that can be used to help develop a strategic plan.
Here are 10 questions that can be used to help develop a strategic plan.
I had the pleasure of watching Stephen Curry warm up before a recent game between the Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics. For those of you who don’t know, Stephen Curry is the star point guard for the Warriors, the two-time MVP, and one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history. I was …
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We’ve been working with a new client, the executive director of a non-profit organization. He asked our consulting team to help him build the culture within his organization.
During the holidays, our family came to visit us in California. To make room for our four children and five grandchildren, my wife and I rented an RV, parked it on the street, and made it our quarters for a week. The beds were cramped and hard, we didn’t sleep well, and we had none …
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Core values should capture what’s essential to the long-term, sustainable success of your company or organization. Defining your company’s core values means taking the time to engage in a deep exploration of what truly is essential to its success.
One of my favorite axioms of leadership is this: “Assuming responsibility means making a choice.” In other words, you can’t tell people to do something and expect them to assume responsibility for it. You need to pose a series of questions to truly get people to assume responsibility.
As a leader and manager, how do you spark creative flow in other people? I think there are four keys.
Now that you’ve learned about your style of communicating and how to identify the styles of the people around you, how can..
To build high levels of trust, you need to establish clear operating principles. Operating principles help clarify the day-to-day interactions you want people to demonstrate, and enable teams to anticipate and minimize conflict.
Decisions are the atoms of every organization. Every new product launched, every new service offered, every process made more efficient and reliable is a result of hundreds of decisions. Effective leaders view their worlds through…
