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Read Today's Bugler Read current Blogging News: BERT Download Authoria's complimentary white paper - Staffing Strategies: Can You Find, Recruit, and Retain the Talent You Need? Kennedy Presentation: Adventures In Search Video. Presentation from John Sumser, Recruiting Is A Conversation is available for download. NEW: Presentation from John and Bridget Sumser, Rethinking The Workforce is available for download. Ten Principles for Recruiting An Integenerational Workforce from John Sumser. Strategic Recruiting 2: Strategy (July 03, 2007) Much is made of the importance of strategy. In an organization, there are two manifestations. Being Strategic and Strategic Planning. The most important part of being strategic is being so well prepared that you are always on the proactive side of problem solving. There is nothing more strategic than a function which sets standards for anticipation. Since strategy is shaped by circumstance, the company depends on constituents that can continue to move the ball forward in changing situations. Dwight Eisenhower (the greatest planner of the American Century) was known to say: "the plan is everything, the plan is nothing." By this, he meant that planning is supremely important with one tiny exception. Reality never, ever unfolds the way that you plan it. It is paramount to have a thorough and detailed planning process. It is equally important to understand that things will not unfold the way that you've planned them. Planning helps prepare for a variety of circumstances. In much of the western world, scenario planning, a technique that relies on viewing the future from a variety of perspectives that are designed to discover and challenge core assumptions, is used to build executive team competencies in dealing with the unknown. For most of us, however, participation in strategic planning means filling out a seemingly endless supply of spreadsheets and forms. It takes courage and tenacity to convert strategic planning, as it is experienced by most recruiters, into a useful asset for the organization.
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