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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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One of the biggest challenges in corporate culture is finding ways to effectively measure and gauge the strength of your culture. Over the past decade companies have used various survey methodologies in an attempt to uncover the truth about their cultures with the most popular one being an Employee Engagement Survey. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.com&blog=4482048&post=875&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIV Boardroom Strategy: Corporate culture is critical to implementing business strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BIV Boardroom Strategy, Dec 15-21, 2009 &#8211; Corporate culture is critical to implementing business strategy
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As you start to develop your business strategy for the new year, look at all of the factors that can support it, one of which you might not have linked directly to your strategic initiatives in past years: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.com&blog=4482048&post=860&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How can I make people care?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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I received an email today from a CEO the other day asking me, &#8220;Do you have any good references / literature on &#8216;how to make people care&#8217;? I&#8217;m having some employee challenges.&#8221;
I thought I would share my response with you:
&#8220;Three ways:
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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&#160;
Here is the Core Values experience I speak about in the first part of the video.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the challenges to goal planning is understanding how your goals will affect the quality of your life. Many people (including me in the past) set goals that led to outcomes they don&#8217;t want. By planning your goals around your core values you set yourself up to create the life you want while you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.com&blog=4482048&post=824&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Habits of Millionaires</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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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.
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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>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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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?”
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		<title>Motivation</title>
		<link>http://mikedesjardins.com/2009/10/27/motivation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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Thank you to Mirjana Galovic for this!
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		<link>http://mikedesjardins.com/2009/10/20/change-the-right-way-and-the-wrong-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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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.
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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>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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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.
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