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Corporate Cultures – Leader Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

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The Leader Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment represents a moderate leader led work environment that gives lower level mangers and supervisors somewhat more autonomy to direct day-to-day activities without relinquishing centralized control. This culture set realizes the benefits of centalized direction setting and improved, if not rigid, consistency. The reliance on rules and standards provides some degree of local flexibility that heightens situational responsiveness but diminishes consistency in actions and results between workgroups and locations.

Recommended Resource – Great by Choice

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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen About the Reference Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen represents a detailed assessment of companies thriving in times of uncertainty compared with similar organizations not performing so well. In the analytical tradition […]

Budget Development Best Practice 1 – Maintain Confidentiality During Budget Development

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Budgets are the financial representation of an organization’s business plan. As such, they convey a great deal of information regarding the organization’s direction - its ongoing operations, market pursuits, future investments, and staffing levels.

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The Big Picture of Business: Corporate Communications – Correctly Positioning Your Company

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Evolution of Corporate Communications Activity In many professions, the idea of full-scope, sophisticated positioning has been foreign up until now. Business development has occurred primarily by accident or through market demand. Because of economic realities and the increased numbers of firms providing comparable services, the notion of business development is now a necessity, rather than […]