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Leaders Don't Allow Tasks to Take Time Away from People
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| In the short term, focusing on tasks gets things done. In the medium to long term, the task-focused manager creates even more work for themselves because they allow the team to wither and become demotivated. This causes a drop in productivity and results begin to wane. It becomes a death spiral when the manager puts even more emphasis on tasks, hoping to turn things around. |
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The Pitfalls of Policy Based Leadership
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| In a nutshell, policy based governance is based on separating organizational purpose from all other organizational issues. Dr. Carver calls this “ends” versus “means.” A board of directors is responsible for the large scale, purpose functions while the chief executive, president or other company officer is responsible for all tactical and operational issues. Dr. Carver proposes that duplicity is reduced and lines of accountability are made much clearer. |
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A Checklist for Franchising Your Business
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| Franchising your business is a major undertaking. Here is an essential to-do list for the prospective franchisor. |
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Forming a Business
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| Whether you are forming your first business or adding to an existing one, it pays to set it up correctly. Choosing the wrong business structure will expose you to unnecessary costs and risks later on. Failing to address the key practical issues can result in you falling out with your business partners.
This briefing focuses on:
* The relative advantages of trading as a limited company, a sole trader or a partnership.
* The mechanics of setting up a business, to comply with the law.
* Choosing a name for your business.
* The most important practical issues - agreeing the strategy and key operational and personnel issues with those you go into business with. |
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Abasia Point
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| Issues like, “I can’t grow past x dollars a year”,” I can’t find good people”, “I have had to skip paying myself”, “accounts receivable are out of control”, “Operational Performance is inconsistent”, “not enough time”, etc. are all very common and tell tale signs of the Abasia Point.
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Technology Contracts – How to Address Development, Protection and Licensing
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| Rapid growth in the computer technology sectors, specifically Internet and related software and network technologies, have presented an increasingly complex set of issues for business owners and their lawyers. Negotiating appropriate contractual protection is a key practice used by successful companies to maximize the potential value of the transaction while minimizing its inherent costs and risks. What is “appropriate” for any given set of circumstances will depend on the interplay of the company’s strategic vision, the tactical allocation of resources and operational issues encountered. This article addresses procedures for dealing with issues that arise in defining the scope of an Agreement |
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The Power of RealTime Electronic Customer Feedback
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| The author discusses the many and varied benefits of creating a real-time feedback loop between yourself and your customers, both for immediate operational issues and long-term strategy. |
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The Pitfalls of Policy Based Leadership
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| In a nutshell, policy based governance is based on separating organizational purpose from all other organizational issues. Dr. Carver calls this “ends” versus “means.” A board of directors is responsible for the large scale, purpose functions while the chief executive, president or other company officer is responsible for all tactical and operational issues. Dr. Carver proposes that duplicity is reduced and lines of accountability are made much clearer. |
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Problem Solving the Coaching Way
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| One of the challenges of being a leader is dealing with the many issues that face us on a daily basis. Most of these issues are those that come with people. How many times a day do you spend trying to solve other people’s issues? Want to free up more time during the day to get to the things that you want rather than the things other people want? |
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Operational Innovation
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| There is an opportunity for almost every company to gain advantage through operational innovation. Operational innovation simply means identify key business processes and innovating in them to achieve faster throughput, or to provide some new convenience or wow factor customers, or to bring cost of offerings down in a dramatic fashion.This article explains operational innovation with help of an example. |
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The Golden Thread: Linking Strategy to Execution
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| Detailed operational planning has to relate corporate strategy with the operations of the enterprise at the initiative level and below that at the project level. This Method Frameworks article describes ways to inject operational planning into the strategic planning process and string the “golden thread” through all of the execution loop-holes. |
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The 2010 Twelve-step Checklist to Help You Evaluate Your Strategic Business Planning Process
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| Have you given much consideration to the possibility that your strategic and operational plans may be far less effective than they could be? How would you begin to measure the effectiveness of your current plan? This article should help you to objectively evaluate your own process and self-diagnosis potential issues that may exist in your organization’s current planning world. As you read this article, answer along as we ask the questions to help you honestly evaluate your current business planning process.
Let’s start with the checklist. Scan through the list and do your best to give a first impression “yes” or “no” answer to each question. |
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Are Your Communication Strategies Really Engaging Employees?
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| Employee engagement is a shared understanding of the issues that affect the business, and that understanding leads to changes in employees' attitudes and behaviors... help employees truly understand the issues and make a meaningful connection between their jobs and those issues... |
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