StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 8 – An Interview with Steve Steinhilber, author of Strategic Alliances

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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 8 – An Interview with Steve Steinhilber, author of Strategic Alliances examines how businesses effectively establish and maintain profitable strategic alliance relationships. During our discussion, Steve Steinhilber, author of Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work and Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Cisco, shares with us his insights regarding:

  • what strategic alliances are and the steps taken to form them
  • business drivers and key characteristics of successful alliances
  • unique traits strategic alliance relationship managers should possess
  • the composition and structure of a strategic alliance organization

Additional Information

Complimenting the tremendous insights Steve shares in Strategic Alliances and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from the Cisco website including:

Steve’s book, Strategic Alliances, can be purchased by clicking here.

Special Note…

Please remember that profits from the sale of Strategic Alliances go to the Cisco Foundation; providing those less fortunate with improved access to basic human needs, education, and economic opportunities. To learn more about the Cisco Foundation, click here.

About the Author

Steve Steinhilber, author of Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work, is Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Cisco, where he is responsible for developing new and managing ongoing strategic alliances with top global companies including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, and Nokia; a portfolio valued at more than $4.5 billion in annual revenue for Cisco alone. He is recognized by both business and academia for excellence in alliance leadership.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 7b – An Interview with John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, 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 posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Special Edition 7b – An Interview with John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, part 2 of 2 examines how exit planning helps business owners preserve their illiquid business wealth and achieve their post business ownership goals. During our discussion, John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth: A Strategic Guide for Owners and Their Advisors and owner of Pinnacle Equity Solutions, shares with us his insights regarding:

  • benefits of employing a multidiscipline advisory team to support exit planning
  • the optimal time to begin exit planning
  • how often to review and update, if necessary, your business exit plan
  • key market trends to consider and monitor when executing an exit strategy

Additional Information

Complimenting the tremendous insights John shares in Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from his website (www.ExitingYourBusiness.com). John’s book, Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, can be purchased by clicking here.

About the Author

John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, is the owner of Pinnacle Equity Solutions, an exit strategies firm specializing in exit strategy design and execution services for advisors and their privately held business owner clients. He previously served as a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and was an adjunct professor at Suffolk University where he taught Private Finance to MBA students as well as Certified Financial Planning courses to undergraduates. To read John’s full biography, click here.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 7a – An Interview with John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, part 1 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 posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Special Edition 7a – An Interview with John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, part 1 of 2 examines how exit planning helps business owners preserve their illiquid business wealth and achieve their post business ownership goals. During our discussion, John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth: A Strategic Guide for Owners and Their Advisors and owner of Pinnacle Equity Solutions, shares with us his insights regarding:

  • what exit planning is
  • the five exit options
  • identification of the best exit option given the business owner’s personal and financial readiness and goals
  • the impact of taxes on exit option selection

Additional Information

Complimenting the tremendous insights John shares in Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from his website (www.ExitingYourBusiness.com). John’s book, Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, can be purchased by clicking here.

About the Author

John Leonetti, author of Exiting Your Business, Protecting Your Wealth, is the owner of Pinnacle Equity Solutions, an exit strategies firm specializing in exit strategy design and execution services for advisors and their privately held business owner clients. He previously served as a Financial Advisor with Smith Barney and was an adjunct professor at Suffolk University where he taught Private Finance to MBA students as well as Certified Financial Planning courses to undergraduates. To read John’s full biography, click here.

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Strategic Planning Best Practice 13 – The Use of Calendars

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All too often, strategic planning coordinators are frustrated by an inability to coordinate critical meetings such that all required individuals are able to attend. While strategic planning should be a high priority for all executives and senior managers, so are a great number of other tasks. To ensure the needed executives and managers are available, thereby making the most effective use of their time, it is important to schedule these critical meetings far in advance. By using strategic planning calendars, coordinators will have the prerequisite insight to schedule meetings far enough in advance to avoid conflict with other priority gatherings.

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Strategic Planning Best Practice 12 – Planning for the Best and the Worst

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Strategic plans present the best estimate of what planners, executives, and board members believe will take place within the market environment under the most likely to occur circumstances. But what of the activity of strategic planning itself? Shouldn’t an organization also be prepared to deal with best and worst case outcomes? Or should market forces be allowed to conspire unopposed to create an outcome other than that predicted?

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