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Sunday, June 30, 2013

10 reasons your business plan won't succeed - lack of details and people who can execute well



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Why don't companies focus more on decision-making quality? | Leadership doesn't mean ordering people around | Can Paula Deen salvage her ailing brand?
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June 27, 2013
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Why don't companies focus more on decision-making quality?
Companies typically make front-line decisions carefully and scientifically but fail to bring the same level of rigor and oversight to top-level decisions and strategic planning, says author Dan Heath. Firms need to find ways to ensure executives aren't being unduly swayed by emotion, office politics or visuals, Heath says. "Pursue good decisions at the top of the organization as relentlessly as you do on the front line," he says. Strategy+Business online (free registration)/S+B Blogs (6/26)
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Leadership doesn't mean ordering people around
Good leaders recognize that their workers aren't automatons and don't try to make every single decision for them, writes Mary Jo Asmus. If you're feeling bogged down, try delegating, thus giving yourself more space to focus on the bigger picture, Asmus advises. "You'll be surprised at how smart and capable they are," she writes. Aspire-CS.com (6/24)
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Celebrity chef Paula Deen's brand has faltered since she confessed to making racist comments, with brands such as Wal-Mart and Caesars Entertainment ending their involvement. Experts say the episode shows the impact a leaders' careless words can have on a company and how hard it can be to subsequently put things right. "[Y]our personal actions represent your brand at large. You are your brand's biggest most important spokesperson," writes Jim Joseph. Entrepreneur online (6/24), Bloomberg Businessweek (6/26)
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PayPal has announced a plan "to help make universal space payments a reality," ensuring that its technologies follow explorers and tourists into space. The project, developed with the SETI Institute, will seek to develop extraterrestrial payment conventions. "Space tourism is opening up to all of us in the next decade or so and we want to make sure that PayPal is the preferred way to pay from space and in space," said PayPal President David Marcus. National Public Radio/The Two-Way blog (6/27)
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10 reasons your business plan won't succeed
Many business plans have baked-in flaws that guarantee they won't deliver the desired results, writes Bill French, who lists and explains 10 common defects. "Business plans that don't incorporate structured, detailed, all-encompassing go-to market plans as an integral part of the planning process are at a high risk of underperforming -- or worse," he writes. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Leadership (6/26)
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Everything you knew about food is wrong
Your food is lying to you, writes Alex Santoso. So-called baby carrots are actually carved from fully grown carrots; portobello mushrooms are simply plus-sized button mushrooms; fortune cookies aren't actually Chinese; and salmon is dyed pink, with fish farmers using swatches to pick the precise shade they're aiming for. Neatorama (6/26)
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