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Frontline Festival: January 2016 DRAFT

Let's Grow Leaders

This month’s festival is all about Vision and Strategy. Laura Barnard of PMO Strategies takes a realistic look at change management and change resistance with ideas for doing change WITH people instead of TO them. . Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.

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Strategic Plan(ning) for Organizations: Reviewing, Refining, Repeating

Strategy Driven

Making strategy a process rather than a statement is a key to success. Focus on the process, not the plan. Business leaders trying to plot the future of their companies without a plan often find their business not going exactly where they intended. A few years ago, I made a business plan.

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

To move the needle in your organization in 2016, the first place to start is by asking thought-provoking questions. These (or comparable) questions can make the difference between a successful 2016 and a disappointing one. 7 Leadership Questions That Will Move The Needle in 2016. Let’s dig in! Let’s dig in!

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2016: One Thing to Remember

Strategy Driven

To tackle those disruptions, most every major decision you’ll need to make during 2016 will be outside your comfort zone. Not your manager or company, not your strategic plans or your customers. Those conversations will not make the decisions for you, but they will begin to shape the space you’ll need to embrace during 2016.

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What Is the Best Mindful Business Strategy?

Strategy Driven

A new area for mindfulness is how business strategies are developed. Strategy development and mindfulness are a great combination, and the best mindful business strategy starts with a simple concept – Be present. The strategic step forward is frozen, and nothing happens. Being Present: A Business Strategy.

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The attack of the Yabuts!

Strategy Driven

During a strategic planning meeting, he suggested that they should explore how to be more effective in how they manage certain new initiative assignments. Scott Cochrane is the author of Your Creative Mind: How to Disrupt Your Thinking, Abandon Your Comfort Zone, and Develop Bold New Strategies (Career Press, 2016).

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The Making of Legends

Strategy Driven

Working with companies, I have realized that presenting organizational strategies as an extension of previously-held pop-culture values gets more understanding, comprehension, attention and support. I have spoken at conferences, strategic planning retreats, symposia, workshops and board meetings for hundreds.