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Uncommonly Clear Articles
We hope these articles help you create the clarity you need to speed and improve results whether you need a clear and compelling strategy, a successful implementation of your plans, improved performance, a clearly aligned organization, or a culture change. If you would like additional help, we can be reached at info@uncommonclarity.com or the other methods listed on our contact page.
A Clear and Compelling Strategy
- The Top Few Priorities
- What Is Your Company’s Driving Force?
- The Strategic Clarity T-Test
- Don’t Listen to Your Customers!
- How Often Should You Do Strategic Planning?
- Who is Responsible for Profitability?
- Growing Pains –Three Hazards to Avoid
- 10 Signs of Insufficient Strategic Clarity
- There is No ‘C’ in SWOT – The First of Many Troubles
- Does Your Strategic Planning Suffer from These Flaws?
- Is Acquisition the Answer?
- A Great Idea Is Not a Strategy
- Top Twelve Strategic Perils
- What Does a Clear and Compelling Strategy Look Like?
- Better, Lucky or Someone’s Habit?
- Three Myths that Kill Strategy
- Are You a Victim of the Current or Steering Toward Your Future?
- Quality is NOT a Strategy
- Is Operational Excellence the Enemy of Strategic Breakthrough?
- Strategy, Results and Distractions - Beware Low Hanging Fruit!
- Mission, Vision… Poppycock!
- Strategy - Do You Have One?
- Don't Miss This Opportunity! - Nine Gifts of the Recession for Smart Companies
Successful Implementation
- Take a Test Drive!
- Know When to Call the Plumber!
- The Top Few Priorities
- Monitoring Progress the Wrong Way
- Could Your Meetings Be Shorter and More Powerful?
- Who Should I Invite To My Decision?
- Uncommon Clarity in Tracking Progress
- Uncommon Clarity in the New Year
- Why SMART Goals Aren’t So Smart
- Are Your Employees Committed to the Wrong Things?
- Plans Fail - Are You Prepared?
- Sometimes a Great Project - Eight Tips for Project Management Excellence
- How to Minimize Effort and Maximize Results
- Clarify the Objectives
Improved Performance
- If It Hurts, Stop Doing It!
- The Cost of Ambiguous Roles
- Are Annual Reviews a Plus?
- How Your American Attitude Hinders Your Learning
- You Don’t Want Compliance
- More Treadmill Traps to Avoid!
- Are You Ignoring These Important Assets?
- Don’t Reward Performance!
- To Be, Not Just To Do
- What Is Holding You Back?
- Motivation Made Easy
- When Not to Use Email
- Don’t Decide and Act!
- Making Resolutions Stick
- Beyond To Do: To Be
- Lessons From a Bobcat Sighting
- One Down, Eleven To Go
- Is That Your Indecision Box?
- 9 Signs You’ve Got the Wrong Employee
- What One Factor is Essential to Great Meetings?
- To Fire or Not to Fire - Mired in Guilt?
- That's Not Running! How We Fool Ourselves with Measures of Success
- Who is Responsible for Profitability?
- Why You Shouldn’t Feel Stupid
- Ann Latham’s Tips for Peak Productivity - #8 Clear the Decks
- The Worst Mistake You Can Make When Overloaded
- When Selling Becomes the Only Dance There Is
- Killing a Killer Bad Habit
- Save Money - Skip the Training!
- Ann Latham’s Tips for Peak Productivity - #7 Phenomenal Focus Finishes First
- You Know Less Than You Think
- Ann Latham’s Tips for Peak Productivity - #6 What If You Had Another Month Every Year?
- Uncommon Clarity in Tracking Progress
- Uncommon Clarity in Delegating
- Ann Latham’s Tips for Peak Productivity - #5 "Please, No More Good Ideas!"
- Uncommon Clarity in the New Year
- Ann Latham's Tips for Peak Productivity - #4 Create Energy with Clarity
- Ann Latham’s Tips for Peak Productivity - #3 Eliminate the ‘Shoulds’
- Leaders Don’t Wait and 7 Other Traits
- Ann Latham’s Tips for Peak Productivity - #2 Identify Concrete Next Steps
- Does "Slip-Sliding Away" Describe Your Week?
- The Mouse that Roared
- Facing Fastballs - 10 Steps to Greater Self-Confidence
- Ann Latham's Tips for Peak Productivity - #1 Create a Friday List
- Email? Phone? Text? - How to Choose Wisely for Better, Faster Results
- Why Training Fails
- Ten Points for Smarter Email
- The Uncertain Upside - Escaping the Black Hole of Indecision
- So Much To Do, So Little Time!
- Talent Is Not Overrated, Nor Is It What You Think
- Conquering the Devil in the Details
- How to Minimize Effort and Maximize Results
- Ten Tips for Achieving Your Goals
- Email: The Beautiful and the Beastly
- Bailouts, Swine Flu and Other Decisions Going Awry
- How to Make Better Decisions Faster
- Every Touch Counts - Winning Customer Loyalty One Touch at a Time
- Are You “Doing it for ISO?”
- Are We STILL Making Mistakes? - Five Keys to Predictable, Repeatable Processes
- Beware Consistency for the Sake of Consistency
- Clarify the Objectives
A Clearly Aligned Organization
- Clear Distinctions: Compliance vs. Stupidity
- Dangerous Dysfunction
- Does Your Team Push Back?
- What You Need to Know About Goals and Success
- The Strategic Clarity T-Test
- Beyond To Do: To Be
- Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore' - Eliminate "Victim Words" and Spur Productivity
- To Fire or Not to Fire - Mired in Guilt?
- Growing Pains –Three Hazards to Avoid
- 10 Signs of Insufficient Strategic Clarity
- Uncommon Clarity in Delegating
- Why SMART Goals Aren’t So Smart
- Leaders Don’t Wait and 7 Other Traits
- The Mouse that Roared
- ‘Poor Communication’ - What Does It Really Mean?
- Email? Phone? Text? - How to Choose Wisely for Better, Faster Results
- Captain of Your Own Ship
- Ten Points for Smarter Email
- Emotion and Logic at Work
- Seeing-Eye Boss
- Four Reasons to Cancel that Meeting!
- Seven Poor Reasons for Having a Meeting
- Seven Good Reasons for Having a Meeting
- Tips for Planning a Meeting
- Getting Serious - Three Tips for TODAY’s Meeting
- So Much To Do, So Little Time!
- Do Your Employees Avoid Making Decisions?
- A Workplace Hazard: Communication
- Like a Homeless Homing Pigeon - No Destination Means No Good Route to the Roost
- A Secret Formula for Answering Tough Questions
- Class Dismissed! Trained, But Not Changed!
- The Dangers of Dueling Management Systems
- Has The Pendulum Swung Too Far On Seeking Consensus?
- Ten Tips for Achieving Your Goals
Smooth Change
- Clear Distinctions: Starting vs. Wandering In
- Managing People vs. Managing Change
- Generation Nonsense
- Making Resolutions Stick
- Are Your Employees Committed to the Wrong Things?
- So You Think Employees Hate Change
- Change Management - Five Colossal Mistakes to Avoid
- Change Management Redefined
- Do Your Employees Avoid Making Decisions?
- Class Dismissed! Trained, But Not Changed!
Take the Clarity Quiz!
- Clarity Quiz - Do You Know Your Treadmill Verbs?
- Clarity Quiz - Which is Visible?
- Clarity Quiz - What is the Best way to Reward Performance?
- Clarity Quiz - Who Should I Invite to My Decision?
- Clarity Quiz - When Not to Use Email
- Clarity Quiz - How Often Should You Do Strategic Planning?
- Clarity Quiz - a la Sesame Street
- Clarity Quiz - What One Factor is Most Essential to Great Meetings?
- Clarity Quiz - Who’s Responsible for Profits?
- Clarity Quiz - What is the Best Way to Avoid Feeling Stupid?
- Clarity Quiz - What is the Worst Way to Deal with Overload?
- Clarity Quiz - Does Joe Have a Bad Attitude?
- Clarity Quiz - Where Would You Hide An Elephant?