StrategyDriven Big Picture of Business Article

The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

This is my own Big Picture full-scope analysis of the Enron debacle. It far transcends financial analysis made by other people.I have been carefully observing Enron with interest since 1984 and have seen the trouble coming for most of those years. The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the […]

How to Stress-Test Your Strategy

Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, explains why management teams must ask themselves tough strategy questions. During this interview, Robert covers: obstacles business leaders face when executing their business strategy why companies need to focus on one primary customer the importance in choosing which among shareholders, […]

Management Would be Easy if You Didn’t Have to Deal with People, part 1 of 3

We frequently remind managers, as well as aspiring managers, that management is a new career. As surely as teaching is different from accounting, management is different than the role that a person held as an employee or as a start-up entrepreneur. Many new managers, however, find themselves overwhelmed. Instead of focusing on the day-to-day job […]

StrategyDriven Big Picture of Business Article

The Big Picture of Business – Situations Causing the Downtown and Corporate Scandals: Barriers to Progress and Business Growth

Every business, company or organization goes through cycles in its evolution. At any point, each program or business unit is in a different phase from the others. Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business TreeTM and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. It’s not […]

Winning Time-Starved Customers

Adrian Ott, author of The 24-Hour Customer, was a recent guest on Fox Business Live; sharing her insights on: how to win the business of time-starved customers aligning products and services to meet customer’s needs and time availability constraints synchronizing with the customer so to be positioned to serve them when they are ready to […]

Leadership Inspirations – The Cost of Doing Nothing

“There are costs and risks to a program of action but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) 35th President of the United States

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 57 – An Interview with Robert Simons, author of Seven Strategy Questions

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 57 – An Interview with Robert Simons, author of Seven Strategy Questions explores […]

Leadership Inspirations – The Right Mental Attitude

“Nothing can stop someone with the right mental attitude from achieving their goal. Nothing on earth can help a person with the wrong mental attitude.” Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America (1801 – 1809)

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 56 – An Interview with Andy Kanefield, co-author of Uncommon Sense

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 56 – An Interview with Andy Kanefield, co-author of Uncommon Sense explores how […]