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Strategy and the Fat Smoker
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What’s Our Deal?

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For any organization to achieve a unified, forward momentum, it must first have a solid set of rules and goals for its members to agree upon. We will discuss a number of integrating concepts aimed at getting all players on the same page.

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NOTES FOR THE EPISODE:

00:42 – Introduction

01:38 – A hierarchy of concepts

03:44 – The importance of purpose

08:35 – Management and commitment: The key to a mobile organization

11:44 – Will they follow you?

16:38 – No final whistle: excellence into the indefinite future

19:05 – Revisiting values over time

21:40 – Creating rules of decision making

23:26 – Conclusion