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Recently Published Articles
Here are some recent articles that have been published in major periodicals. You may find them to be very helpful in your organizational work. To find the full content, please click on the title or go to the periodical URL found on the Links page
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Business Strategy Series, Emerald Press (2nd Q 2009)
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The Role of HR in Contingency Planning
Employment Relations Today (1st Q 2009)
- How Great Leaders Avoid Disaster: The Value of Contingency Planning
Business Strategy Series, Emerald Press (1st Q 2009)
2008
- CEO’s Worst Nightmare:
How Contingency Planning Can Avoid Strategy Failures.
CEO Refresher, (August 2008)
This article describes the importance of Contingency Planning, plus when and how it should be done as part of the strategic planning process. - Strategic Planning That Really Works
IndUS Business Journal (June 2008)
This article talks how the challenges that arise in strategic planning and how the S.W.O.T. analysis tool can help reduce their impact on the final results. - Bringing Human Resources Back Into Strategic Planning
Employment Quarterly Today (Fall 2008)
This article details the value that the Human Resources department of any organization brings to the strategic planning process – step by step.
News
2009
- January 2009 - Secrets of Great Sales Management translated in Nigerian
- February 2009 - Article entitled How Great Leaders Avoid Disaster: The Value of Contingency Planning (Business Strategy Series) selected by Emerald Group Pulbishing as one of the best among their eighty publications for the first quarter.
- March 2009 - New book announcement! Robert A. Simpkins and Behanz S. Paknejad have announced a tentaive release date for their new book in the 1st quarter, 2010. The Great Value Shift: Recongizing and Responding to Change in a Changing World will help all organizations to better understand change and how to use it for sustainable growth.
- May 2009 - New Global Crosswinds, LLC website unvield. It can be found at www.globalcrosswinds.com.
2008
- January 2008 - Secrets of Great Sales Management translated into Vietnamese
- January 2008 - Secrets of Great Sales Management adapted for the India market
- July 2008 - New book, Not Another Pretty Binder! Strategic Planning That Actually Works, scheduled for Fall release by HRD Press.
- August 2008 – Robert A. Simpkins selected to be a keynote speaker at EuroBusiness conferences in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, in March 2009.
- August 2008 - Robert A. Simpkins selected to be a keynote speaker at the GrupoBusiness conference in Mexico City, Mexico, in May 2009.
- August 2008 – Amazon pre-announced that the new book, Not Another Pretty Binder! Strategic Planning That Actually Works, is taking advance orders.
- September 2008 - Robert A. Simpkins to be guest speaker at Institute of Management Consultant meeting in Washington, D.C.
- September 2008 – Not Another Pretty Binder! Strategic Planning That Actually Works has been selected by HRD as their featured book for the October 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair (the world’s oldest and largest).
- November 2008 - Robert A. Simpkins selected to the Board of the National Capitol Region Institute of Management Consultants.
2007
- April 2007 - Secrets of Great Sales Management translated into Polish