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Best Practices in Enterprise Strategic Management

This article discusses using an agile strategy execution software tool for greater success and higher performance in tracking, managing and executing strategic initiatives. It also reinforces the importance of linking strategic tasks and cascading projects up and down the organization. With a flexible and scalable shared communications resource you can leverage buy-in and stay-in while tracking performance.

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Discover Hidden Costs in Your Business

Many companies respond to slow growth cycles with a knee-jerk reaction of cutting jobs as well as budgets. While this may be necessary, too often what has happened is that executive management first looks at the highest paid employees and offers them an early retirement package. They also look at advertising, training, and marketing budgets to see where else to trim expenses. 

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10 Ways to Engage Staff Using Social Media

Social Media is a powerful tool for gaining feedback on initiatives from staff and other stakeholders. Create private groups to build an internal community, communicate initiatives and results, and inject fun into the workplace. Contests and rewards also help to engage people in fun ways. 

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Systems Thinking as a Leadership Best Practice

Have you run across the term Systems Thinking? First, let us drop the concept that this is about systems like procedures, or manufacturing systems, or systematizing something. While these all have something to do with Systems Thinking, what we are really talking about are living systems. Like our bodies, for example, like our families as living systems, and yes, like our businesses as living systems.

We need to apply the concept of looking at these living systems systemically, meaning not only how the systems are organized and run but also what environment they live or operate in. Our businesses are living systems that operate within other systems, such as our local market, our regional and national market, our customers’ and suppliers’ systems, etc. 

Getting Through the Peaks and Valleys of Life

Peaks and Valleys are normal and natural in life and work. Create a sensible vision using all five senses and then follow it to move out of the Valleys. When in a valley, ask yourself: “What is the truth about this reality?” To stay longer at the Peak, find ways to be of greater service to others and more loving to your family and friends.
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Every thought we have is sent out into the universe and becomes a reality for us. If we only think negative thoughts about how difficult or unfair life is or how unhappy we are with our current job or life circumstances, then we continue to create that reality. If, on the other hand, we stop to think “what is the lesson to be learned here” or “how might this reality be different,” we are taking stock of our situation and facing the truth of that reality.