Responsibility My Arse?

Credit to: http://www.billcasselman.com

1. There are people who had certain level of position in the organisation that afraid to make use their authority.

2. They are like Durex; long-lasting, glow-in-the-dark, very thick and grip, and extra-safe types of condom.

3. What they do is just collect their big and fat pay cheque at the end of the month without taking any responsibility.

4. They just delegate, delegate, delegate and delegate their responsibility for their own safety. "You do your part and you also do my part".

5. Message to these kind of cunts: Take your post with responsibility. If you don't want to be responsible, just leave your post. Subordinates will never had a respect towards these kind of cunts, even a little.

6. Wondering how such a cunt can survive so long.....

Trait Theory

Credit: http://majastevanovich.files.wordpress.com

1. People are born with inherited traits.

2. Certain physical, social and personal traits are inherited in leaders.

3. People with the "right" traits must be looked when leadership roles need to be filled.

4. Normally, people that have potential as a leader will had the "right" traits.

5. However, trait theory tend to examine leadership in only one context.

6. It also assume that the traits were inherent, not learned nor developed.

Leadership

Credit: http://arrowsinthehandsofawarrior.files.wordpress.com

1. There are lot of leadership theories. The early one can be divided into two; big 5 theory and

traits theory.

2. Big 5 theory normally used to measure personality. The five major personalities that been

described are listed as below:

• Extroversion - comfort level with relationship
• Agreeableness - individual propensity to defer to other people
• Conscientiousness - a measure of reliability
• Emotion stability - ability of person to handle stress
• Openness to experience - one range of interest and fascination with novelty

3. Since this is among the earliest theory, the signification sometimes is not correlated.

Organization

1. Organization can have multiple level of administrative and management.

2. But it will means nothing if it's been topped by monkey and dog.

3. Looks good in books but not in reality.

4. Sorry.

Strategic Planning

Image from http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov

Lots of firm know what is strategic management and what is strategic planning. But most of them, just ignore the importance of strategic planning. Why? Here I listed few points that contribute as a cause.

Why NO Strategic Planning

• Lack of knowledge of strategic planning
• Poor rewards structures
• Fire fighting environment
• Waste of time
• Too expensive to implement
• Laziness
• Complacency

However, if strategic planning been done in a right ways, it can turn to be very effective and will benefited the firm. Effective strategic planning must consists few elements as below:

• People process > paper process
• Words supported by figures
• Simple and non-routine
• Challenging assumptions
• Underlying corporate strategy

Strategy

Image from http://www.nicclark.com

Can I conclude it as 3 process of strategy? Whatever it is, it still the 3 steps that need to be done by strategist out there when doing strategy planning.

Strategy Formulation

• Vision & Mission
• External opportunities and threats
• Internal strengths and weaknesses
• Long term objective
• Alternative strategies
• Strategy selection

Strategy Implementation

• Annual objectives
• Policies
• Employee motivation
• Resource allocation

Strategy Evaluation

• Internal review
• External review
• Performance measurement
• Corrective action

As for strategists, the data that had been gathered, need to be analysed and organised. Otherwise, it will bring no value to the data itself.

SWOT Analysis

1. For external and internal assessment.
2. Strengths and weaknesses (Internal).
3. Threats and opportunities (External).
4. Can be upgraded into SWOT Matrix where SO (Strengths-Opportunities), WO (Weaknesses-Opportunities), ST (Strengths-Threats) and WT (Weaknesses-Threats) can be listed and evaluated.
5. Widely used for Strategic Management, mostly in planning.