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Business Leadership | Communicate | Delegating | Fictional Case | Leader-Follower | Leading Teams | Prioritizing A Fictional Case This fictional case illustrates two scenarios: (1) How a mismanaged 1-1 can contribute to strategic drift and employee disengagement, and...Executing, Project Management, Strategy, Tools for Leaders
Managing Work | Meetings | Metrics | Presenting | Project Management | Reporting | Strategic Execution In this section we share four techniques that we use to accelerate execution. The overriding principle is that the leader and team routinely focus on projects that...Executing, Planning, Productivity, Project Management
Managing Work Multitasking has unfortunately ingrained itself into our work habits and management techniques. Research is clear – multitasking produces sub-optimal outcomes. A person who focuses on a single activity and doesn’t leave that activity until it...Executing, Productivity, Strategy, Tools for Leaders
Metrics | Reporting | Scorecard | Strategic Execution | Strategy Measuring and Data We talk a lot about using metrics to understand our business, but which ones should we use? The obvious challenge to using metrics is to figure out which measures make sense and to be...Executing, Planning, Prioritizing, Strategy
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Managing Work | Planning | Project Management | Strategic Execution | Tools for Leaders SMEAC – Adopted from the U.S. Marine Corps SMEAC is an acronym that stands for Situation, Mission, Execution, Administration and Logistics, and Command and Signal. SMEAC is...Executing, Planning, Project Management
Administrative | Managing Work | Project Management | Strategic Execution Good Managers Get Real Work Done by Gordon Whitehead, Founder of Leaders247 I served as the VP of IT Operations for a successful healthcare company in Portland, Oregon many years ago. I remember...Executing, Planning, Strategy
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Nike | Planning | Prioritizing | Productivity | Time-Management | Tools for Leaders About the 9th Hour by Gordon Whitehead, Founder of Leaders247 I learned about the 9th hour from my friend and former boss at Nike, Bruce Watson. Bruce was a person who had never...Executing, Planning, Prioritizing
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Planning | Prioritizing | Productivity | Tools for Leaders The Importance of Prioritizing Great leaders prioritize, plan, and execute, and they avoid situations where they are constantly in a reactionary mode. Leaders make the process of prioritizing a daily, weekly,...