Shared experience, organizational pride, and/or conflict avoidance can diminish the criticality of data and conclusion assessment; leading to exaggerated optimism and resulting in an organizational pursuit of unrealistic goals. Inflated expectations may drive investment in projects well outside of the organization’s risk tolerance. In today’s aggressive marketplace and under intense shareholder scrutiny, missteps like these can be disastrous for a company and its executive team.
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Nathan Ives is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey reveals the seven behaviors common among successful individuals. Each behavior is accompanied by a rich discussion of why it works and is illustrated with examples.
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Ongoing planning and execution enables an organization to appropriately adjust to its changing operational environment. Effective response to marketplace changes is achieved by using a combination of event, routine, and annualized planning and execution activities. Event driven activities, triggered by abrupt marketplace changes, enable the organization to react to significant developments in the business environment. Routine and annualized activities help the organization maintain flexibility in response to slowly evolving trends.
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Nathan Ives is a StrategyDriven Principal and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast. For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.
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Recommended Resource – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
/in Practices for Professionals, Recommended Resources/by StrategyDrivenby Steven R. Covey
About the Reference
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Steven R. Covey reveals the seven behaviors common among successful individuals. Each behavior is accompanied by a rich discussion of why it works and is illustrated with examples.
Benefits of Using this Reference
StrategyDriven Contributors believe that because an organization’s actions are defined by its people and not the buildings, machines, and tools they use, organizations themselves fundamentally behave like people. We find that organizations exhibiting the same behaviors Dr. Covey describes in his book likewise achieve greater levels of success. Many of the best practice recommendations found on the StrategyDriven website relate to the seven habits; making The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
a StrategyDriven recommended read.
Strategic Planning Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Planning and Execution
/in Strategic Planning/by Nathan IvesMarket changes wait for no one. In today’s rapidly changing business environment, competitors and suppliers aggressively seek to gain a competitive advantage while government agencies and special interest groups continuously seek to further their agendas. These forces, acting together, demand an organization to be responsive and flexible to maintain its footing within the marketplace.
Ongoing planning and execution enables an organization to appropriately adjust to its changing operational environment. Effective response to marketplace changes is achieved by using a combination of event, routine, and annualized planning and execution activities. Event driven activities, triggered by abrupt marketplace changes, enable the organization to react to significant developments in the business environment. Routine and annualized activities help the organization maintain flexibility in response to slowly evolving trends.
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Core Performance Measures
/in Organizational Performance Measures, Premium/by Nathan IvesRecommended Resource – Good to Great
/in Recommended Resources/by StrategyDrivenby Jim Collins
and
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
by Jim Collins
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Written by Jim Collins, co-author of Built to Last, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
identifies the common qualities of companies that have been able to make the lasting transition from average corporate performer to industry standout. In Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
, Jim Collins shares his insights to the corollary behaviors of social sector organizations that have achieved superior performance.
Benefits of Using this Reference
StrategyDriven contributors like Good to Great
not only for its revealing and sometimes surprising findings but because these findings are based on hard data and direct interviews from both the good to great and comparison companies. We found the insights presented in Good to Great and the Social Sectors
highly valuable in translating the for-profit company findings of the original text to the behaviors and programs supporting great government and not-for-profit company operations. Many of the best practice recommendations found on the StrategyDriven website exemplify behaviors and practices of companies seeking to move from good to great as described by these books.