Weekly Hotlist: Many Strategies Fail Because They're Not Actually Strategies

 

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November 13, 2017 Many Strategies Fail Because They're Not Actually Strategies By Freek Vermeulen They're goals.

Conflict How to Work with a Manipulative Person by Liz Kislik It's worth risking small, public confrontations. Strategy execution Smart Leaders Focus on Execution First and Strategy Second by Rosabeth Moss Kanter Four things to focus on. Time management How to Stay Focused If You're Assigned to Multiple Projects at Once by Heidi K. Gardner, Mark Mortensen Follow a few simple rules. Gender We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top by Jane Edison Stevenson, Evelyn Orr A survey shows specific traits are critical to women's success. Innovation How Coca-Cola, Netflix, and Amazon Learn from Failure by Bill Taylor Encourage your team to embrace mistakes. Career planning What Mentors Wish Their Mentees Knew by Vineet Chopra, MD, Sanjay Saint, MD A good relationship depends on both people. Managing yourself Why a Gen-X CEO Hired a Millennial to Help Him Keep a Learning Mindset by John Barrows To stay current, admit what you don't know. Emerging markets How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy by Arvind Gupta, Philip Auerswald Demonetization was only the start.

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