Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - (Page 40) | 04/08 Compressed Air Industry PLASTICS BLOW-MOLDING | Are You BY RICH HORWATH “Only 4% of . management leaders could be classified as strategists.” Until now, looking into someone’s soul is about the only way we’ve had to guess at whether or not someone is “strategic.” In many organizations, it is assumed that senior executives are strategic and lower-level employees are not. As you might imagine, strictly using someone’s title to determine their strategic ability is as accurate as using a Hollywood star’s popularity to determine their knowledge of political issues. Leadership research by the American Management Association has shown that the most important competency for a leader to possess is the ability to develop strategy. Unfortunately, when researchers examined leaders at all levels in organizations, they found only 4% could be classified as strategists. According to the Institute of Directors in London, the wide gap between the importance of strategic thinking and the percentage of leaders that actually are strategic can be attributed to the fact that 90% of executives at the vice president level have had no training to become competent strategists. There are three defining principles that great strategists continually apply to their business in order to enable them to outperform their competition: 40 www.airbestpractices.com http://www.airbestpractices.com
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(Page 43) Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - Resources for Energy Engineers: Training Calendar & Product Picks (Page 44) Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - Resources for Energy Engineers: Training Calendar & Product Picks (Page 45) Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - Wall Street Watch (Page 46) Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - Wall Street Watch (Page 47) Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - Wall Street Watch (Page 48) Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - Advertiser Index (Page 49) Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - Job Market (Page 50) Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - Job Market (Page Cover3) Compressed Air Best Practices - April 2008 - Job Market (Page Cover4)
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