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Strategic Planning Questions – 5 Things Can Amazon Teach You about Strategy

BrainZooming

If your leadership team hasn’t explored this possibility, it makes sense to do so periodically: What core competencies allow us to deliver the best product or service we can? Among these competencies, which ones are important to your competitors?

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Innovation Tools and Techniques – Do they make an Innovation Expert?

BrainZooming

Your innovation expertise could also be in training, executing of innovation Strategy and Models, project management, and leadership. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Marianne Carr.

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The 10 Telltale Signs of Future Troubles for WalMart

Adam Hartung

2 – In March, 2010 AdAge ran a column about WalMart being “stuck in the middle” and effectively becoming the competitive “bulls-eye” of retailing. 3 – In October, 2010 Fortune ran an article profiling then-CEO Mike Duke. It described an executive absolutely obsessive about operational minutia.

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The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm. Here are the seven C-level skills and traits companies prize most: Leadership. The skills cited as most indispensable for C-level executives—not just CEOs—are those that jointly constitute leadership. Strategic thinking and execution.

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Most HR Data Is Bad Data

Harvard Business Review

The first large study was published in 1998 in Personnel Psychology; there was a second study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology in 2000; and a third confirmatory analysis appeared in 2010, again in Personnel Psychology. Is this person really a ‘5’ on strategic thinking?

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

8:07 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Armin Trost | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Too often I hear even HR people saying, "HR is too important to be left to HR." Take over responsibility and leadership. Take over responsibility and leadership. Im sick about it. All rights reserved.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.