Management and Strategy

Management is all about connecting with the people on your team. So how do you effectively manage a team? You can read more about this at insidecrm.com. Following is a link to the original article (read more).

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6 W’s can help you define your organization…

• Who are we? – Vision and Value structure
• Where are we going? – Strategic intend
• How will we get there? – Tactical action plan
• When will it happen? Time Line
• Why are we doing it? – Legitimizes
• What’s my role? – Personalizes the activities

To be a great leader …

• Get good people
• Create positive work environment
• Give tools to do work
• Have courage to let your employees fail
• Celebrate successes of your employees

   
   

Step 1: Write assumptions used to make decisions

Step 2: Identify Killer assumptions

-> Perform what if analysis.

Step 3: Find a blockage strategy for competitors

-> Based on Killer assumptions

Following are few lessons we can learn from Unsuccessful Leaders:

• Ignored to a notable flaw
• Untested areas emerge
• Fail at relationship/transition
• Over reliance on particular skills
• Lazy learners
• Narrow leadership perspective

Following are few key lessons learnt from successful leaders.

• Seek & receive more feedback
• Manage a high variety of “On the job” Challenges
• Experience a zigzag career
• Many firsts and occasional failures
• Learn new skills and ways of thinking

The size of leader can be determined by the length of their ambitions, the breath of their vision, the depth of their conviction and the reach of their love.

—D. N. Jackson

Following are steps to solve any problem.

• Fact Gather
  • Interview
    • Internal
    • External
  • Gather Data
    • Company
    • Competitors
    • Customers
  • Market Research
  • Internet Research
  • Facilitated Group Sessions
• Analyze
  • Process Analysis
  • Financial Analysis
  • Value Drivers
    • Simulate/Model
    • Value Chain Analysis
    • Benchmarking
    • Business Ecosystem
      • <value net>
      • <5 Forces>
• Interpret
  • Team Brainstorming
  • Client/Consultant Brainstorming
  • Progress Reviews
  • Use of Firm Methodologies
• Motivate
  • One-On-One Feedback
  • Progress Reporting
  • Coaching/Training
  • Graphic Feedback
• Confirm
  • Final Presentation
  • Report
• Launch
  • Action Plan
  • Coaching

Following is a problem solving framework.

Defining Goals is first step to solving problems. Following is a framework to define goals.

 

S1    something you want to change

Should be one statement or max 1 para.. Should focus on current state of problem. What problem are we solving?

S2    will be produced at the end of support

Where will we end… This is easy implementation or objective…

B    what you will gain at S2