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Browsing Archive: May, 2009

The bottom line: motivation

Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, May 21, 2009, In : Organization Behavior 

Your organization is only effective when they feel like it.


Have you coached your management and executive team on how to motivate people around your vision? A leader holds management accountable to understand, commit, and own their role to translate your vision to their team.  Your management's ability to own their role and translate that to their team is the break point on if your organization succeeds or fails. 

Every employee wants to know how they make a difference:  how they contribute ...

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Statistically, your strategy will fail

Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, May 14, 2009, In : Portfolio Planning 

I recently ran across a statistics book and began to think about similarities to strategic planning.   

Statistics:  a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data.  It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data.

Until this week, I had not thought statistics had as much in common to strategic planning.  It became evident there is far more linkage then seemed. 

In strategic planning we analyze probabl...

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Diversity facade, part 1

Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, May 7, 2009, In : Talent Management 

Intelligence does not guarantee insight.  However, diversity does. The very leverage of knowledge is dialogue. And dialogue, a true exchange of ideas and opinions, is only possible in an environment that welcomes and fosters diversity, not the diversity facade, but the diversity lever of possibility. 


Although diversity can be a sensitive and often incendiary issue, I want to focus on diversity’s greatest benefit: the birth and exchange of ideas and perspectives.  

What is the goal of diver...

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