Posts tagged action
A good follow-up for our Managing with Aloha next-stepping and value-verbing discussions recently, for both practices are about higher energy action.
A well crafted posting by @JesseLynStoner. She shares a teachable story about Abraham Lincoln while making a good distinction for us, asking us to defer to action.
“Being” is often connected to the Aloha rootstock of Managing with Aloha, as we “look to the source” of our Sense of Place and Nānā i ke kumu, and those reminders are good in a self-grounding way. However drawing from them, and then acting within our value alignment is where we best connect with others, and serve.
Article teaser from Inc.:
Strategic management can be a huge time drain for managers. Why not just ditch the conventional wisdom and go with your intuition in order to innovate once in a while?
Not just for innovation, but to get moving, period. I’m all for more intuition, and less analysis-paralysis! And any forecasting based on history (still done with way too many business budgets) is downright foolish today.
Those who are strategy-laden often ignore a real-world truth today. Strategy is tactics—and tactics are strategy. The Great Recession forced many corporations to throw out the old rules and experiment. And many built sales and strengthened their strategies through tactical execution.
~ John Gerzema, author of Spend Shift
The 99%:
In the olden days, the ability to collect, organize, and analyze massive amounts of data was largely the province of scientists working in academia, government, or private industries like pharma or biotech. Not so in the 21st century. Data collection and analysis is now a key competitive advantage for online companies from social networks to consumer shopping sites. It’s not just NASA that has a “Chief Scientist” anymore – LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Amazon have them, too.
Here are 6 best practices for harnessing data and making it actionable, shared by LinkedIn’s DJ Patil:
Click in for the detail on each, and think about how this can work for you too.
A gut feeling can lead us, and the data can help us recalibrate.
~ Scott Belsky
