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‘Dosh Dosh is a blog offering internet marketing and blogging tips, alongside social media strategies. Best consumed by bloggers, entrepreneurs, web publishers, marketers, freelancers and small business owners.

Heya. I’m Maki, the writer who’s responsible for all the material you read on this blog. Apart from managing Dosh Dosh, I’m also currently a Philosophy student in Toronto, Canada. ‘

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Marshall Goldsmith FeedForward Tool

‘When you think of giving feedback, start giving feedforward -
focus on the promise of the future rather than the mistakes of the past.

Instead of rehashing a past that cannot be changed (feedback), Marshall Goldsmith and Jon Katzenbach coined “feedforward” to encourage spending time creating a future.’

Marshall Goldsmith is a well recognized coach on management behavior.

You can use his ‘FeedForward Tool’ to improve your communication with people you work with.

More:

• A short video clip (youtube version, flash version) explains the concept!
• Ten Reasons to Use the FeedForward Tool
• ‘What Got You Here Won’t Get You There‘

A great one hour training video on Feedforward (at Google):

Video

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Collaboration in large professional companies

Great podcast by David Maister:

how to improve collaboration in large organizations.

‘I am going to read off a list of the “network collaboration” tactics that large multisite professional companies consider in attempting to induce more cooperation in their networks.

The top-tier tactics:

1. Cross-staffing
2. Rotation of staff
3. Reorganize around people we want to collaborate more
4. Information-sharing (Real-Time Knowledge Management) (…) ‘

In my opinion, Real-Time Knowledge Management is supported by Web 2.0 platforms.

Business Podcast overview.

Using the DiSC-model for improving your feedback

Improve Your Feedback

This podcast is showing how to use the DiSC model in feedback.

It serves as a good comparison of the four communication styles!

Core message: modify your feedback to the natural communication style of your team member!

‘Speak French when in Paris, speak Italian when in Rome’

Understanding Change Management: ‘Our Iceberg is Melting’

Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter talks about his book “Our Iceberg Is Melting” with a familiar friend (in a YouTube video), see below.

This is a great book, telling you a story.

Overview on Change Management

You will understand how to apply Change Management in your own business situation when you have read it!

• Reviews on Amazon.com
• Kotter’s book ‘Heart of Change’ is mentioned by manager-tools.com as one of their favorite books
• Our Iceberg is Melting site - contains some other great videos!
• Site of John Kotter
• John Kotter on How Change Is Changing
• Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail (full HBR article)

• Another ‘Change Iceberg’ - not related to the work of John Kotter; but useful!
• Change management forum
• Wikipedia on Change Management
• The McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of McKinsey & Company - on Change Management

• Here is more on Business Strategy on this blog!
• Here is more on communication skills that you can use in Change Management projects!

The eight steps for change!

1. Establish a Sense of Urgency
2. Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition
3. Create a Vision
4. Communicate the Vision
5. Empower Others to Act on the Vision
6. Plan for and Create Short-Term Wins
7. Consolidate Improvements and Produce Still More Change
8. Institutionalize New Approaches

Video

Related posts:

March 23, 2008: Collaboration in large professional companies

On Business Strategy:

• 10 Favorite Books on Business Strategy
• Favorite books on Management Consultancy - LinkedIn Question
• Business Model Innovation
• Alignment: ‘everybody needs to understand the value of their role’
• Summary of the article ‘Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard’ by Robert Kaplan
• Strategy articles in the Harvard Business School website

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Summary of the article ‘Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard’ by Robert Kaplan

Robert Kaplan

Article: ‘Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard’

Core benefit of the Strategy Map:

• ´strategies will be successful only if all employees understand it…’

• ‘ the Map is a visualization of the strategy´

• ‘ the Strategy Map complements the Balanced Scorecard’

• ´use the Map to communicate a vision for the future…´

Communicating the strategy with a Strategy Map matches nicely with the idea of ‘Stickyness’ of effective messages!

There are some other interesting articles by Robert Kaplan and David Norton (inventors of the BSC) on the Harvard Business School website:

• The Strategy-Focused Organization

• Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

• Managing Alignment as a Process

Strategy articles in the Harvard Business School website

These are some interesting articles by Robert Kaplan and David Norton (inventors of the BSC) on the Harvard Business School website. It is about using Strategy Maps, Balanced Scorecard implementations and Alignment of strategy:

• The Strategy-Focused Organization

• Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

• Managing Alignment as a Process

• Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

More on Business Strategy:

• 10 Favorite Books on Business Strategy
• Favorite books on Management Consultancy - LinkedIn Question
• Business Model Innovation
• Alignment: ‘everybody needs to understand the value of their role’
• Summary of the article ‘Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard’ by Robert Kaplan
• Strategy articles in the Harvard Business School website