Ken Ball

The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1

The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. While that has long been considered traditional retirement age, Boomers are known for bucking the system. Many will decide to stay in the workforce and replenish their savings and retirement accounts. But when they do leave, they […]

StrategyDriven Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice Article

Run New and Old Performance Measures in Parallel

The outcomes of substantive change can seldom be fully anticipated; and changes to organizational performance measures are no exception. Performance measures drive executive and managerial decisions and personnel actions and, over time, shape these behaviors to achieve optimal results relative to the established measures. Thus, changes to performance measures serve to change behaviors in predictable and sometimes unpredictable ways.

Leadership Inspirations – A Better Tomorrow

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” Charles F. Kettering (1876 – 1958) American inventor and the holder of 140 patents

Set the Stage for Engagement

Low pay is a dissatisfaction for employees but high pay by itself won’t keep the best people around. Transactional leadership might be a motivator when money and better benefits are available, but today’s climate seems to lend itself more to transformational leadership where a caring leadership can stimulate innovation, creative thinking, and productivity. In Healing […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing

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 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of […]

Corporate Diversity Still Coming Up Short for Women

Review of S&P 100 Shows Women Account For Fewer Than 1 in 10 Top Paid Executives, 1 in 5 Board Members. Women may make up more than half the workforce1 but continue to be significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in C-level executive positions, according to a major new study released today by Calvert Investments, […]

Leadership Inspirations – Recovery

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius (551 – 479 BC) Chinese thinker and social philosopher

Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 2 (Segment Two)

In Part Two – Segment Two will complete the discussion on a trusting organization. These 10 principles of trust when employed consistently to your entire organization without bias will build a bridge of loyalty that will stand against the elements. People do not willingly leave organizations built on moorings as strong as trust. This article […]

Lock in and Engage Top Talent

In good times and bad, organizations have learned about the impact of thinking that employees are dispensable. Such thought is particularly unwise as the economy improves after a downturn. During the past few years, companies have lopped off employees in the hundreds of thousands for reasons of economic survival. The staff gaps that resulted are […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 49 – An Interview with Kathryn Ullrich, author of Getting to the Top

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 49 – An Interview with Kathryn Ullrich, author of Getting to the Top […]