Recommended Resource – Great by Choice

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen About the Reference Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen represents a detailed assessment of companies thriving in times of uncertainty compared with similar organizations not performing so well. In the analytical tradition […]

StrategyDriven Budget Development Article

Budget Development Best Practice 1 – Maintain Confidentiality During Budget Development

Budgets are the financial representation of an organization’s business plan. As such, they convey a great deal of information regarding the organization’s direction - its ongoing operations, market pursuits, future investments, and staffing levels.
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Recommended Resource – The No Asshole Rule

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Robert Sutton About the Reference The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton provides methods for constructively dealing with the workplace bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, and egomaniacs – regardless if they are seniors, peers, or subordinates. His research provides […]

StrategyDriven Tactical Execution Best Practice Article

Tactical Execution Best Practice 6 – Succession of Authority

Limited resources, personnel, financial, and material, are a constraining reality faced by every business. These constraints prevent leaders from executing on business activities and in some avoidable cases result in customers not receiving the goods and services to which they are entitled. In other instances, business operations cease altogether. While demand spikes cannot be perfectly anticipated, policy-induced limitations are fully avoidable and often inexcusable. An executable authority succession pan is one such mechanism used to avoid a policy-driven operational stoppage.

Leadership Inspirations – Resistance

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor…

Recommended Resource – How to Win Friends & Influence People

How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie About the Reference How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is the timeless classic that reveals how leaders can engage and motivate individuals to become teams; joining together to achieve a common purpose and produce more than the sum of their singular […]

StrategyDriven Budget Development Article

Budget Development Warning Flag 1 – Division by Twelve Budgeting

Annual budget development is often time consuming and tedious, one of the evil necessities of managing a business. Subsequently, managers frequently seek shortcuts to reduce this burden; one such burden reducing action being the equal distribution of budget revenues and expenditures during each of the fiscal year’s twelve months.
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Leadership Inspirations – Doing Great Work

“To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.” Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) Iconoclastic Victorian author

Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear

Finance Without Fear: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger About the Reference Finance Without Fear: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger unveals the mysteries of financial statements in this easy-to-understand, example filled book. William and […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Video Edition 3 – Framework for Aligning an Organization

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 principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 3 – Framework for Aligning an Organization explores the mechanisms needed to […]