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The Cranky Middle Manager Show #24- How To Make Strategy Reality
Posted on 25. Nov, 2005 by Wayne in Podcast
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #02
Greetings once again. Today’s show is all about strategy- why does it work, why doesn’t it work and what’s our role as managers in the whole crazy scheme of things.
0:00 Welcome to the show. For a great example of the manager’s role in implementing strategy we look to The Charge of the Light Brigade. A bad plan, to be sure, but the middle managers sure passed the orders on like they should have. We especially give a post-humous salute to Captain Edward Lewis Nolan, God bless his little order-giving heart.
3:23 Our Quote of the Week is from the poem, “Charge of the Light Brigade”. You’ve used the quote, now get it right….. A little poetry won’t kill you.
5:24 Welcome David Norton of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative. Why does most corporate strategy fail?
7:30 What’s our role in all this?
12:17 How can you use compensation to drive strategy? Here we introduce the Balanced Scorecard concept.
19:25 Strategy is a team sport. There is no “I” in strategy. There’s no “Q” either which makes it a lousy scrabble word.
22:19 Having someone responsible for cutting across siloes sounds great, but isn’t it just more bureaucracy?
27:00 More resources. Check out the Harvard Business School Report on Balanced Scorecard.
Don’t forget, only 1 more week to find the Worst Manager on the Planet!… EMAIL ME or send me a message by SKYPE at wayneturmel. We have great prizes…you can find out more here.
Don’t let the weasels get ya down…….
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