Leadership Inspirations – Out on a Limb

“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?” Frank Scully (1892 – 1964) Author

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 59 – An Interview with David Aaker, author of Brand Relevance

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 59 – An Interview with David Aaker, author of Brand Relevance explores the […]

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

Conditions for Empowerment We realize that so far this empowerment process looks fairly easy. Set the goals for everyone, establish their boundaries, and set ‘em all loose. As you might guess, it isn’t quite that simple. But it’s not too far off really. Before a manager can put a team member in an empowered environment, […]

StrategyDriven Alternative Selection Best Practice Article

Alternative Selection Best Practice 2 – Evaluate Everything

All business operations consume a portion of the organization’s limited resources and each presents its own value proposition. However, the strategic planning process often only considers newly presented initiatives and available resources in excess of those consumed by core business processes and previously approved ongoing initiatives. Such practices prevent organization leaders from considering the return on investment of emerging opportunities relative to those established functions; returns on investment that could be far more significant at equal or lesser risk. In order to recognize and be positioned to act on these truly game changing opportunities an organization’s leaders must evaluate all business operations and initiatives during its alternative selection process.

StrategyDriven Change Management Article

Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Everybody loves Bob. He’s a corporate hero. Just last week Bob was watching television after dinner, but he wasn’t really watching. Instead he was thinking about work, as he does most nights. Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was […]

Leadership Inspirations – Resolve

“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.” Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) Founding Father of the United States and author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat

Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms […]

StrategyDriven Evaluation and Control Program Article

Radical Recovery Tools

How to survive and thrive in a down economy You can’t turn on a television, open a paper or read a news feed today without hearing more depressing news about the economy. The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. How […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading

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 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading […]

Management Would be Easy if You Didn’t Have to Deal with People, part 2 of 3

Goals and Boundaries We’re going to use some diagrams to show you how this all works. In all of the diagrams, we use a target as a symbol for the goals of the position and an ‘X’ as a symbol for the starting place of the person in that position (they are about to begin […]