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Corporate Culture: The Four Ingredients That Are Crucial to Your Company’s Success T his chapter shifts attention from the components of your plan that are considered to be tangible to those parts of your story that may appear at first glance to be intangible. The term corporate culture is used frequently in business language. What makes up cor- porate culture is often in question. Many things can be and should be included in any discussion of an organization’s culture. In this chapter you will develop four products for your story and business plan: 177 CHAPTER 7 1. A set of core values 2. A philosophy statement 3. Operating principles 4. A strategic intent statement The four represent important influences on parts of your culture and must be considered when developing the integrated planning model. The first section on values advises you on how to build a list of values without falling into the sophomoric trap of spending all your time developing and prioritizing a list of meaningless rhetoric. The explanation leads you to developing a set of core value state- ments and their subsequent requirements to put the values into place while accounting for the operational values. The second component of the culture is the philosophy state- ment. This statement of how you intend to do business sets a nec- essary tone. It sends a strong message about what is important to keep your business viable. On the other side is the implication that if you violate this philosophy you jeopardize the health and well- being of your company. The third component of the culture are the operating princi- ples. In this description I outline a number of filters through which you must pass your story for authentication and validation. Adherence to the principles or cross-checking your business plan against the principles provides the consistency of your story. The fourth component, the strategic intent, is a critical restate- ment of where the management team intends to take the organiza- tion. It sends signals to employees and has significant influence on how they react. A military commander always signals strategic intent through the military version called commander’s intent. With this statement the commander gives subordinate unit com- manders advance warning that certain types of operations will fol- low the present tactical plan. When subordinate commanders know the intent they can better prepare to follow it. Different logistical requirements exist if you plan to continue the attack or you plan to Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan 178 defend the hill. Likewise, business leaders need to tell their organi- zations what they have in mind for the long term. For example, marketing needs to know the strategic intent so it can align its cam- paigns with the company direction. T HE T HREE S TEPS FOR D EVELOPING A L IST OF C ORE V ALUES In previous years we began a planning session with work on the goals. It made sense to decide what you wanted to accomplish. There would have been no discussion of the types of soft issues now included in planning models. To suggest starting with or even dis- cussing values would have been summarily discarded, rejected, and rebuffed. Yet we knew that values played an important part in the behavior of organizations as they moved out of a command-and- control hierarchy toward The four ways to handle brick walls The four ways to handle brick walls Bởi: Joe Tye “Brick walls are not there to stop you, they are there to make you prove how much you want something.” Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture Randy Pausch was living the American Dream He had a job he loved as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, a wonderful family, and fascinating hobbies Then he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and given less than six months to live As he was dying, he was giving speeches and writing a beautiful book about lessons on how to live We all sooner or later run into brick walls When that happens, we need to remember the admonition in the title of the book by W Mitchell book (of whom more later): It’s Not What Happens to You It’s What You Do About It There are four possible responses to running into a brick wall, each of which can be appropriate, depending upon the situation Response #1, Quit: The first is to quit, giving up the quest After a certain number of years, someone who’s been toiling away in the minor leagues has to accept that the dream of playing in the Big Leagues is not going to be realized and to find a new set of goals to pursue I started Values Coach in 1994 after realizing that the insurmountable brick wall standing between me and my then-goal of being CEO of a large hospital was trying to tell me that my calling in life lay elsewhere Sometimes brick walls are there to tell you that you are on the wrong path Response #2, Keep hammering: The second is to keep pounding away at that brick wall, enduring all the pain and frustration of picking yourself up time and again, knowing that it will knock you down many times before you finally crash through Every spouse of an alcoholic or parent of a child who’s gotten into drugs knows the daily anguish of running into a seemingly impregnable brick wall, hoping that this will be the day that one last crash into that wall will lead to a breakthrough So does every author who has 1/2 The four ways to handle brick walls papered his or her walls with rejection letters and yet continued to buckle down at the writing desk the next day Response #3, Shift gears: The third is to find a way over or around the wall When Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started the company that still bears their names, their first project was a pin counter for bowling allies It hit the market and immediately ran into an impenetrable brick wall Rather than pounding away trying to sell the device with brute force marketing, they tried something else - and developed the technology that Walt Disney used for the soundtrack Fantasia They launched a company that for more than seven decades was a model of both technological and cultural excellence, and that today is trying once more to get around another brick wall Response #4, change the playing field: The fourth is to find a new wall When I visited the Center for the Intrepid, a high-tech rehabilitation facility for the most horribly injured Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I met men and women who, because of their injuries, would need to find careers other than the ones they were pursuing before being sent to war Their work at CFI represented the first of many new walls that will continue to test their resolve It’s important for you to ask what the brick walls you run into might be trying to tell you In my case, the brick walls that stood between me and my “dream job” of hospital CEO were trying to tell me that I needed to change course and find what author Carlos Castaneda famously called “a path with heart.” But the brick walls I run into when I get rejection letters from publishers are trying to tell me that I need to work harder at being a better writer and being a better promoter of what I’ve written It’s Not What Happens to You It’s What You Do About It 2/2 Online Marketing for Offline Businesses The Digital Way To Promote Brick and Mortar Businesses Terms and Conditions LEGAL NOTICE The Publisher has strived to be as accurate and complete as possible in the creation of this report, notwithstanding the fact that he does not warrant or represent at any time that the contents within are accurate due to the rapidly changing nature of the Internet. 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Contents Foreword Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Differences Between Promoting An Offline Business Compared To An Online Business Chapter 3: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Social Media To Promote Your Offline Business Chapter 4: What Is “Cartwheel” And How Will It Help Offline Businesses Chapter 5: The Importance Of Your Stores Website And Mobile Site Chapter 6: Using Events For Promotion Chapter 7: Using Kindle As The Ultimate Business Card Chapter 8: Reputation Management Chapter 9: Do You Need A Consultant? Chapter 10: Conclusion Foreword Promotions or marketing plays an important role when it comes to business. The current trend that is happening when it comes to marketing and promotion is that there is great shift between brick and mortar businesses or offline businesses going into online business promotions. For many, this is really something that they look forward to, since they are able to reach more people in the least amount of time. It is like word of mouth on hyper drive. You can reach and advertise to more people in more countries without leaving the comfort of your office, or Four ways to join clauses We have already learned that clauses can be joined in several ways. In this lesson, we will closely examine some of these techniques. Study the examples given below. She returned home safely. Everyone was happy. We can join these two clauses in four different ways. Using a semicolon A semicolon doesn’t separate two clauses like a full stop but it indicates a stronger pause than a comma. She returned home safely; everyone was happy. Using a coordinating conjunction We use coordinating conjunctions to connect two independent clauses. The most common coordinating conjunctions are: and, but, yet, for, so and or. She returned home safely and everyone was happy. Using a subordinating conjunction Clauses introduced by a subordinating conjunction cannot stand on their own. They need to be attached to an independent or main clause. Subordinate clauses are usually introduced by conjunctions like when, as, because, while, since, if etc. When she returned home safely, everyone was happy. A subordinate clause can come before or after the main clause. When a sentence begins with a subordinate clause, we usually separate it with a comma. Commas can be omitted when the subordinate clause goes after the main clause. Everyone was happy when she returned home safely. Another example is given below. He opened the window. The cat jumped in. We can join these pairs of clauses using the models given above. He opened the window; the cat jumped in. When he opened the window, the cat jumped in. The cat jumped in when he opened the window. Another pair of sentences is given below. The maid lit the fire. The room became warmer and brighter. The maid lit the fire; the room became warmer and brighter. When the maid lit the fire, the room became warmer and brighter. 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