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		<title>Overcoming Cynicism to Strategic Planning</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2012/01/26/overcoming-cynicism-to-strategic-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction This week&#8217;s blog looks at strategic planning. Volatile markets, ever accelerating technology and agile competitors, means that keeping people focused you’re your strategy has never been more difficult. Do you have the right metrics to forecast upcoming problems and the need for strategic adaptation? Static strategic planning often suffers from lagging indicators. Traditional approaches foster [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecrispianadvantage.com&amp;blog=11851087&amp;post=6642&amp;subd=pdsgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Competitive Success Out of Uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2012/01/19/creating-competitive-success-out-of-uncertainty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The avalanche of data at ever increasing speeds creates greater corporate ADHD. The result is decision making suffers from “24&#215;7 news cycle” thinking where now is better than later. Competitively, it means increased market stress and rapid cycles of wicked problem solving. So, what can we learn about remaining competitive? It’s 20 years since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecrispianadvantage.com&amp;blog=11851087&amp;post=6538&amp;subd=pdsgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If people don’t trust you, what chance do you stand?</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2012/01/09/if-people-dont-trust-you-what-chance-do-you-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2012/01/09/if-people-dont-trust-you-what-chance-do-you-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[360 degree feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AlEx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[align expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aligning people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bottom up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fog of War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategy implementation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On both sides of the Atlantic, the employment compact is fracturing along the lines of manufacturing outsourcing, poor change communication and inconsistent leadership. The bottom-line is that “doing more with less”sounds macho in closeted executive strategy sessions. The reality is that those who get the work done feel the stress of over-work and unabated insecurity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecrispianadvantage.com&amp;blog=11851087&amp;post=6312&amp;subd=pdsgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2012/01/03/2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 21,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecrispianadvantage.com&amp;blog=11851087&amp;post=6214&amp;subd=pdsgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s changed in Key Account Management in 15 yrs?</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2011/12/15/whats-changed-in-key-account-management-in-15-yrs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1995 I worked with my client Peter Barlow then VP Global Account Management and Major Projects for APV (Food Process Engineering Company) on developing a Major Account Management System. Now over 15 years on I ask: What&#8217;s changed in Key Account Management 15 years on? Building and maintaining profitable relationships with your most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecrispianadvantage.com&amp;blog=11851087&amp;post=5639&amp;subd=pdsgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Best out of the Matrix</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2011/12/07/getting-the-best-out-of-the-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction For 40 Years few have challenged Matrix Management&#8217;s viability. Most writers remain convinced that a matrix approach is superior to a hierarchy, but why hasn&#8217;t it been more successful? This blog looks at pointing the reader to answer: How do ensure we get the promised rewards of the Matrix? First,  a definition for SHRM [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecrispianadvantage.com&amp;blog=11851087&amp;post=5222&amp;subd=pdsgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are Sales Compensation Hydraulics Still Leaking?</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2011/11/29/why-are-sales-compensation-hydraulics-still-leaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neil Rackham]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.    Introduction I developed this as a discussion paper for a client&#8217;s European Sales Management Effectiveness Project. The interesting perspective is how the issues raised in the early 90&#8242;s are still validated by Deliotte&#8217;s 2010 survey of 250 Sales VPs. It begs the question: Why are Sales Compensation Hydraulics Still Leaking? 1.1.  How do you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecrispianadvantage.com&amp;blog=11851087&amp;post=5258&amp;subd=pdsgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offering Help and Advice to Mortgage Loan Customers</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2011/11/04/offering-help-and-advice-to-mortgage-loan-customers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interactive Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A key finding of our research (Nick Anderson and Linda Marsh) was that 40-50% of mortgage loan customers surveyed had concerns about their house buying process. Unfortunately, Mortgage Loan Officers recognized only half of these people had such concerns. Also, Mortgage Loan Officers thought that half the people who didn’t have concerns did.


So, one key factor on offering help and advice is correctly identifying people
 who have concerns they need help with.
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		<title>Developing Sales Coaching Expertise: Learning from the Legends</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2011/11/04/developing-sales-coaching-expertise-learning-from-the-legends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[accountability culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[performance metrics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Journal article by George M. De Marco, Byan A. Mccullick; JOPERD&#8211;The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation &#38; Dance, Vol. 68, 1997) I like this article as it challenges some of the more superficial approaches to training sales managers to coach. It is a challenge that so many duck and as I wrote in Quality Sales [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecrispianadvantage.com&amp;blog=11851087&amp;post=4907&amp;subd=pdsgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Problem Defining &amp; The Consulting/Intervention Process</title>
		<link>http://thecrispianadvantage.com/2011/10/24/problem-defining-the-consultingintervention-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickanderson1952</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Resource Challenges in Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Successful & Sustainable Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problem Defining &#38; The Consulting/Intervention Process Calif Manage Rev. 1979 Spring;21(3):26-33.Kilmann R, Mitroff I. Intervention theory1 and the consulting process2 have developed to provide more effective methods by which organizational change is conducted.  These methods have emerged in order to operationalize a theory of changing rather than a theory of change.  The latter is what Bennis3 found to be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecrispianadvantage.com&amp;blog=11851087&amp;post=4621&amp;subd=pdsgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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