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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 52b – An Interview with Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill, co-authors of Surviving the Baby Boomer Exodus, part 2 of 2

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StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Special Edition 52b – An Interview with Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill, co-authors of Surviving […]

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Decision-Making Best Practice 11 – Evaluate the Front Page Headline

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Transparency motivates. Transparency shapes. Transparency drives. Decisions made in full view of those who would provide critical judgment – shareholders, regulators, employees, and the public – provides a powerfully strong guiding force that demands decision-makers fully vet the business and ethical implications of each option and soundly support their ultimate selection. Not every decision can or should be made in the public view. However, every decision-maker can challenge their team and themselves with the question, How would this decision read as a New York Times front page headline?

Selfless Leadership: Putting Our Cause First

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In the fourth couplet of his poem ‘If-,’ Rudyard Kipling wrote:   Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;   Kipling is telling us that as leaders, we must be willing to put our cause or beliefs ahead of our personal gain. He is reminding […]

Refusing to Hire the Unemployed

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Wendy Powell, author of Management Experience Acquired, was a recent guest on NBC’s Daytime; sharing her insights on: why employers are refusing to hire the unemployed what unemployed individuals can do to overcome this obstacle how unemployed individuals should handle questions about their previous employer during an interview Wendy Powell on the StrategyDriven Podcast Earlier […]

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