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by Andrew Bass | Blog, From Strategy to Action, Leadership
There’s big difference between stated priorities and actual priorities. If you want to know what the stated priorities are, look at what people say in their PowerPoint presentations. But if you want to know if it’s a real priority, you Read More
by Andrew Bass | Blog, From Strategy to Action, Leadership, Strategy
"To know and not to do is to not yet know"Very often organizations and individuals know what to do, but for whatever reasons, they don't actually do it.One new CEO I know had done a strategic review, out of which Read More
by Andrew Bass | Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Blog, From Strategy to Action, Managing Uncertainty
There's a wry piece of medical humour to the effect that "The operation was a success, but the patient died."In the military, they make a closely related point: No plan survives first contact with the enemy. They use the reminder Read More
by Andrew Bass | Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Blog, Change, Change-&-Persistence, Culture, From Strategy to Action, Newsletter
Andrew Bass’s Pragmatics Newsletter March 2014 Practical techniques and thought-provoking ideas Main article takes under 4 minutes to read. Subscribe at www.bassclusker.com/newsletter: https://bassclusker.com//newsletter I’m seeing a number of very good businesses where leaders are frustrated with a lack of speed. Read More
by Andrew Bass | Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Blog, Culture, From Strategy to Action
In a Middle European country in the 1930s, so the story goes, the management of a gun factory were told by the newly-installed communist government to stop manufacturing arms, but to continue to keep the factory open, and to continue Read More
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