Reframe What Is Strategic. For a new leader, it is tempting to take the strategic direction as a given and align your interests with it. This approach often works, but it has a downside. It prevents you from playing an active role in redefining what is considered strategic. Recall Bettina, the corporate foundation head in Chapter Two. Key executives within the corporation questioned the return attached to investment: in community initiatives. Good works they considered a cost of doing business. “They saw the foundation as a drain on the treasury,” says Bet-tina. “Our initiatives were part of the corporation’s civic responsibility, but didn’t make much business sense.” …Click here to read more

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Mortgage is a solution for you who have no enough money but need or want to purchase a home. There are many lender you can find to help you with mortgage. They will give you a deal and if you think you can pay the monthly payments, you can apply the mortgage. But, as we all know, many American people are trapped in their mortgage debts. Now they are looking for solutions that can release them. …Click here to read more

We have to admit that today we live in consumptive society and it seems easy to buy everything since there was easy pay facility provided by credit card. Those drive us to buy without think first. And all those commercials and not to mention promotion programs such as discount, bonus, and door prizes always have a way to get us curious and it is hard to ignore the buy impulse. This change our buying intention no more base on the need but base on temporary desire. Our life style is change and it is like we can not get away from credit card. But most of us do not realize that beside its benefit with easy payment, credit card actually …Click here to read more

He wanted to have training sessions in ethics that were no more than two hours long and that would cascade down—from senior partners to junior partners to managers. I didn’t think this approach was the right way to go. People are scared to death of senior partners; they put them on a pedestal. That gets in the way of communication. I thought we should mix it up a bit. …Click here to read more

The important thing of well establish company to be maintained is customer especially loyal customer. Many companies do not think this as crucial matter as long as their company can run but they will realize it when all their customer move to other companies which give attention and have good care of customer needs. It is because most companies find it difficult to handle the customer needs. That is why it is important to create good customer relationship management (CRM). …Click here to read more

Keep Testing for Congruence. Strategic goals and the needs they address constantly evolve. Market conditions shift. Organizations change—people take up new assignments, new projects come online, and new technologies redefine communications with customers and with colleagues. Anyone taking on a new leadership position must constantly test whether the needs as currently defined fit with where she wants to go and with where others are ready to go. Cheryl faced this question when she considered whether to join Andrew, a very senior partner, in his efforts to launch an ethics practice at a major accounting firm. …Click here to read more

Foregrounding strategic needs, the exercise produces a road map for making organizational goals operational. “That’s what execution is all about,” Hannah says, “bridging the gap between vision and tactics.” Sometimes the dots are connected with suspicious precision; at those points, she says, “you need to step back and challenge the picture.” Recently tasked with a major strategic initiative, Hannah discovered when she connected the dots that she had two choices—either secure more resources or extend her time line. Managers were accountable for delivering results in the present; …Click here to read more

You can’t try to do the whole thing at once. That seems just Herculean—even to you. It’s downright scary to everybody else. Instead you break the big problem down into pieces and sequence them. That way you can show people, step by step, that things can improve because they are improving. That’s good for morale. It gets them engaged in defining the process—what needs to be done first. And then it creates excitement when they actually see improvement. …Click here to read more

With the constant demands of a 24/7 world, new leaders have to be parsimonious about how they spend their time. The buck may stop in their offices, as the saying goes, but they also want to get the most bang for that buck. Attention naturally gravitates to problems that sound most pressing. But it is important to separate substance from noise. Even crises can be part of the everyday routine. It takes discipline to keep focused on the strategic and not get distracted by the noisiest. Strategic needs are those that impact the organization’s business goals—either this quarter or several years …Click here to read more