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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 33 – An Interview with Larry Myler, author of Indispensable By Monday

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 33 – An Interview with Larry Myler, author of Indispensable By Monday explores […]

Standards and Expectations Warning Flag 1 – Standards Creep

Have you ever been confronted by a customer’s challenge that your product or service quality just isn’t what it used to be? Or notice the number of quality defects in your products or services has somehow increased over the past months, quarters, or years? Or felt so much pressure to get something done that you deemed the quality to be ‘good enough for government work?’

All of these are signs of standards creep; not a beneficial raising of the bar but rather an allowance of ever worsening performance.

Get Buy-In First Before Initiating Strategic Change

Initiatives involve change. Yet no matter how essential or critical the change, change is fraught with pitfalls that are costly. The problem is that too often the change is a push from the top, with the assumption being that because the initiative is important, and well presented, that folks will naturally buy-in. But we know […]