Recommended Resource – The Reinventors

The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change by Jason Jennings About the Book The Reinventors by Jason Jennings provides a step-by-step method for continuously evolving one’s organization such that it remains ever relevant in today’s rapidly changing business environment. Jason examines not only the change methodology to be employed but provides insights to […]

StrategyDriven Evaluation and Control Best Practice Article

Evaluation and Control Program Best Practice 5 – Don’t Break the Mirror

Feedback mechanisms serve as a reflection of an organization, business unit, department, or individual’s performance. At times, these mirrors reveal exceptional performance; in other cases, good or satisfactory performance; and in some instances poor or unacceptable performance. Too often, the individual or group holding the mirror, whether a performance metric, an internal self-assessment, or a third party audit, is blamed for the performance indicated. Regardless of who provides the performance report, this person or group should not be attacked for identifying instances of success or failure.

Jeffrey Gitomer

A dozen books to own and read – at least once.

When Jim Rohn said, “All the information you need to succeed already exists, the problem is you haven’t exposed yourself to it,” it was one of the most challenging and eye-opening statements I had ever heard. I immediately made a lifelong goal to read a thousand books. I have not reached that goal yet, but […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

Decisions, decisions – how good at them are you?

Decisions – either by you, your coworker, your boss, your family members, or your customer – drive your success, your lifestyle, and your attitude. As you’re contemplating what to do, or how to decide, there are stream-of-conscious thoughts that affect the final choice and the resulting outcome. Whether you’re buying something, working on a project, […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Frame of reference is everything in business. Different people within the same organization have contrasting views as to the Business They’re Really In. The term Budgeting gets tossed around in many ways. Budgets get blamed for gridlock. Budgets get politicized. Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and […]

Recommended Resource – The Pivot Point

The Pivot Point: Success in Organizational Change by Victoria M. Grady and James D. Grady About the Book The Pivot Point by Drs. Victoria and James Grady is a business novel presenting a unique perspective on effectively implementing organizational change based on group and individual psychodynamics. Within their book, Victoria and James examine decades of […]

Linda Henman

Leadership Lessons from Zombies

Sometime in the past two years, perhaps while we were distracted by the vampire craze, zombies started presenting a more menacing presence. Scores of television programs, movies, and books have seemingly sprung from nowhere to teach us to survive a zombie attack. For example, Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, has dominated […]

StrategyDriven Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice Article

Ad Hoc Reports First, Automated Metrics Second

Change is difficult. Value illusive. Implementation of new organizational performance measures represents both change and sought after value, either of which can render the time and resources spent creating the new measures worthless. Consequently, it is incumbent upon those seeking to introduce the new measures to effectively test for acceptance and value contribution before committing the significant time and resources required for their development and implementation.

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 63 – An Interview with Victoria Grady, author of The Pivot Point

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 63 – An Interview with Victoria Grady, author of The Pivot Point explores […]

StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability Warning Flag Article

Organizational Accountability Warning Flag 2 – Time-based Performance Assessments

How often have you, as an executive or manager, looked at the cars in the parking lot as you come into or depart from your workplace and said to yourself, “So and so are really contributing to the organization,” based on seeing their cars. Or seeing no one else’s car reflected on your own performance as, “I’m a top contributor. I put in more hours than anyone else.”