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	<title>Some thoughts on strategy, leadership, and corporate culture.</title>
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		<title>Habits of Millionaires</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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In 1998, Thomas Stanley and William Danko, wrote The Millionaire Next Door, after 20 years of research into the habits, attitudes, and behaviours of millionaires.
It turns out that most millionaires reach that level of wealth not by selling a business or cashing out from a corporate stock plan, but instead through a systematic approach to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.wordpress.com&blog=4482048&post=779&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIV Boardroom Strategy: A selection of the best books on strategic planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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[Total read time: 4 mins]
There is no “right” strategic planning methodology that works for every company or organization. In fact, using a blended approach to create a customized methodology will likely yield the best planning framework for you and your company. The question becomes, “Where do I start?”
There have been five key books on strategy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.wordpress.com&blog=4482048&post=799&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motivation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Thank you to Mirjana Galovic for this!
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		<title>Change: the right way and the wrong way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the mistakes I see consistently in organizations trying to create or manage change is thinking that through theoretical understanding somehow people will manage to change either a behaviour or a system. The challenge is that when we apply the Video Test to the outcome the test fails.
Change occurs in organizations when people are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.wordpress.com&blog=4482048&post=745&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boardroom Strategy: Strategic planning for business and life.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BIV Boardroom Strategy &#8211; Oct 6-12, 2009
[Total read time: 4 mins]
In the last two decades, efforts to meet the challenge of reducing the complexity of strategic planning brought about two new approaches: The Balanced Scorecard by Kaplan and Norton in 1992 and Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish in 2002.
Both approaches simplify complex plans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.wordpress.com&blog=4482048&post=736&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Candor</title>
		<link>http://mikedesjardins.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/candor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikedesjardins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most straightforward piece I&#8217;ve read on candor comes from Jack Welch&#8217;s book, Winning. In Chapter Two, he refers to candor as, &#8220;the biggest dirty little secret in business,&#8221; but more specifically as people not expressing themselves in a straightforward way and withholding their comments and criticism; usually in an effort to avoid conflict.
Welch summarizes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.wordpress.com&blog=4482048&post=730&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Business in Vancouver: Why your strategic plan failed and what you can do about it.</title>
		<link>http://mikedesjardins.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/why-your-strategy-plan-failed-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDF of actual column in Business in Vancouver: Sept 15th-21st, 2009
[total read time: 4 mins]
The conversation normally begins like this, “We’ve tried strategic planning in the past but somehow it allows seems to fall by the way side. No matter what method we try, the same result occurs. What are we missing?”
From it&#8217;s military genesis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.wordpress.com&blog=4482048&post=682&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My annual reading and planning week.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting 9 years ago I have taken the last week of August off to head up to Whistler and do three things: plan for the year coming up, read some of the books that have been stacking up on my nightstand, and decompress. BBQing, motorcycle riding, watching all the movies Sabrina (my fiancé) isn’t interested [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.wordpress.com&blog=4482048&post=673&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our leadership development philosophy</title>
		<link>http://mikedesjardins.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/our-leadership-development-philosophy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikedesjardins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year I&#8217;m consistently asked to answer the question, &#8220;what is your overall leadership development philosophy?&#8221; I thought it would be helpful to put pen to paper and blog my answer. Our experience over the past 10 years working with over 1,000 senior leaders in medium to large organizations has led to some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.wordpress.com&blog=4482048&post=656&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with the co-author of &#8220;Sociable&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mikedesjardins.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/interview-with-the-co-author-of-sociable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikedesjardins</dc:creator>
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