StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.
Business leaders face many complex challenges; an evolving regulatory environment, looming tax rate uncertainty and massive government spending cuts, changing workforce and customer demographics, and increasing global competition and downward pricing pressure.
StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launched StrategyDriven Advisory Services (www.StrategyDriven.com) to help executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.
“Business leaders face an unprecedented amount of change and uncertainty,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer. “As such, StrategyDriven Advisory Services was created to provide executives and managers with the insights of highly experienced peers who are themselves successful business leaders. These individuals support their clients’ business performance improvement efforts as well as helping them address today’s evolving regulatory regime.”
StrategyDriven Advisory Services expands on StrategyDriven’s core philosophy of achieving exceptional results through organizational alignment and accountability to established goals. Its seasoned advisors are supported by a collection of tools and methods specifically tailored to the unique needs of each client’s industry.
“Because of our advisors’ direct leadership experience, StrategyDriven Advisory Services will initially focus on the Energy, Non-Profit, and Government sectors,” asserts Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operating and Financial Officer. “We’ve made a significant investment to tailor our services to these industries’ specific needs due to our advisors’ unique qualifications within these sectors.”
StrategyDriven Advisory Services provides business leaders with actionable performance improvement insights in the areas of:
Strategic planning facilitation
Organizational performance measurement system implementation
Program and project management
Operations and operational risk management
Performance improvement program implementation
Business process optimization
Executive, manager, and supervisor performance improvement coaching
Learn more about how StrategyDriven can help you improve your organization’s operational effectiveness and lower costs.
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Little Black Book of Connections by Jeffrey Gitomer provides practical, step-by-step methods for connecting with others in a wide variety of different roles including:
Superiors
Mentors
Co-workers
Customers
Vendors
Family and friends
As with his other books and numerous articles, Jeffrey addresses each communication challenge with a concise list of immediately implementable actions augmented by insightful tips for further improving individual performance.
Benefits of Using this Book
Connecting with others is the foundation of individual success. Without personal connections, we are unable to positively engage and influence those around us in a way that propels us to the achievement of our personal and professional goals.
StrategyDriven Contributors like the Little Black Book of Connections for its immediately actionable advice for creating meaningful relationships with others in a way that positively engages them to support the communicator. We’ve implemented many of the recommendations Jeffrey presents in his book to great success.
Jeffrey’s principles for connecting with others promote respectful engagement. Recommendations contained within the Little Black Book of Connections focus on positive relationship building through the offering of open, honest communications and meaningful value provision by the communicator.
Little Black Book of Connections provides immediately actionable methods for effectively engaging others in a positive, respectful manner making it a StrategyDriven recommended read.
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The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward by Kevin Cashman reveals to readers the secret to dealing with their insatiable compulsion to do more and more within any given day. Kevin shows that instead of simply doing more, professionals must learn to stop, reflect, and move forward in a deliberately different manner in order to achieve more. He goes on to provide the insights and tools for pausing to accomplish more in several key areas including:
Personal leadership
Employee development
Innovative culture
Each section is concluded with a summary of the ‘Pause Practices’ needed to excel in that area as well as a ‘Pause Point’ containing provocative questions for visioning the future you are seeking to achieve.
Benefits of Reading and Using this Book
StrategyDriven Contributors agree that today’s fast paced world compels professionals to act with a speed that limits deliberate consideration. Such restrictions heighten the risk of error, poor decisions, and deteriorating health. With the never ending push to do more with less, this condition is not likely to change soon.
The Pause Principle fills a gap within today’s leadership training. Seldom are leaders taught the value of and methods to slow down. Kevin provides actionable methods for professionals to constructively pause; using this time for valuable contemplation, innovation, and planning so to truly achieve more with less rather than at the expense of ones personal life and health.
To some extent, all professionals are decision-makers and quality decisions require deliberate contemplation. The Pause Principle reminds us of the importance of pausing so to apply the knowledge and experiences necessary for good decision-making – decision-making that leads to innovation and growth.
For its sound, immediately implementable actions promoting excellence by slowing down, The Pause Principle is a StrategyDriven recommended read.
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Impatient Optimist edited by Lisa Rogak reveals Bill Gates’ core beliefs about business in a way no other author has been able to achieve… because these insights come directly from Bill Gates himself. Lisa’s book systematically covers a wide range of topics from ‘Addiction to Technology’ to ‘Relinquishing Control’, from ‘Streamlining Business Processes’ to ‘His Work Habits’, and ‘Hiring Employees’ to ‘Managing Employees’.
Throughout Impatient Optimist, three predominate themes are revealed:
the need to identify and understand any proposition’s return on investment
the value of maintaining the ‘big picture,’ and
the importance of family and of achieving an appropriate work-life balance.
Benefits of Using this Reference
StrategyDriven Contributors like Impatient Optimist because it reveals the intimate thoughts and beliefs of the man who is arguably the most successful business leader of all time but who is also one of the world’s greatest philanthropists. Many of Bill Gates’ approaches align well with the principles and philosophies we recommend business leaders adopt to further their organization’s success. While we recognize some may disagree with Bill Gates’ approach to certain circumstances – and on occasion we do too – all agree he is one of the great business leaders who continues to shape our modern world.
StrategyDriven Contributors appreciated the layout of Impatient Optimist, the organization of quotes around meaningful topic areas, the dating of each quote, and Bill Gates’ life story timeline provided at the end of the book. We found that knowing the setting and circumstances of the Bill Gates’ quotes provided insightful context from which to interpret them. As such, we recommend first-time readers review the ‘Milestones’ timeline presented at the end of the book first and refer to it often when reading individual quotes.
For it’s intimate portrayal of an American entrepreneurial icon, Impatient Optimist is a StrategyDriven recommended read.
“The wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease.”
Josh Billings (1818 – 1885) American humorist
It’s a natural human tendency to seek the path of least resistance. For executives, managers, and supervisors, this practice translates into assigning the difficult and emergent work activities to top performers, diverting work away from under-performers, and avoiding employee confrontations. The latter action erodes accountability. Leaders who do not address the shortcomings of under-performers including the provision of overly positive (even if neutral) feedback and unearned rewards (relative to top performers) loudly proclaim the merits of non-performance. Continued high performance and retention of top talent reinforces these errant practices until one day the lack of accountability drives the company’s best employees to a competitor’s business.
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/in Announcements/by StrategyDrivenStrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.
Business leaders face many complex challenges; an evolving regulatory environment, looming tax rate uncertainty and massive government spending cuts, changing workforce and customer demographics, and increasing global competition and downward pricing pressure.
StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launched StrategyDriven Advisory Services (www.StrategyDriven.com) to help executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.
“Business leaders face an unprecedented amount of change and uncertainty,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer. “As such, StrategyDriven Advisory Services was created to provide executives and managers with the insights of highly experienced peers who are themselves successful business leaders. These individuals support their clients’ business performance improvement efforts as well as helping them address today’s evolving regulatory regime.”
StrategyDriven Advisory Services expands on StrategyDriven’s core philosophy of achieving exceptional results through organizational alignment and accountability to established goals. Its seasoned advisors are supported by a collection of tools and methods specifically tailored to the unique needs of each client’s industry.
“Because of our advisors’ direct leadership experience, StrategyDriven Advisory Services will initially focus on the Energy, Non-Profit, and Government sectors,” asserts Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operating and Financial Officer. “We’ve made a significant investment to tailor our services to these industries’ specific needs due to our advisors’ unique qualifications within these sectors.”
StrategyDriven Advisory Services provides business leaders with actionable performance improvement insights in the areas of:
Learn more about how StrategyDriven can help you improve your organization’s operational effectiveness and lower costs.
Recommended Resources – Little Black Book of Connections
/in Customer Relationship Management, Practices for Professionals, Recommended Resources/by StrategyDrivenby Jeffrey Gitomer
About the Book
Little Black Book of Connections
by Jeffrey Gitomer provides practical, step-by-step methods for connecting with others in a wide variety of different roles including:
As with his other books and numerous articles, Jeffrey addresses each communication challenge with a concise list of immediately implementable actions augmented by insightful tips for further improving individual performance.
Benefits of Using this Book
Connecting with others is the foundation of individual success. Without personal connections, we are unable to positively engage and influence those around us in a way that propels us to the achievement of our personal and professional goals.
StrategyDriven Contributors like the Little Black Book of Connections for its immediately actionable advice for creating meaningful relationships with others in a way that positively engages them to support the communicator. We’ve implemented many of the recommendations Jeffrey presents in his book to great success.
Jeffrey’s principles for connecting with others promote respectful engagement. Recommendations contained within the Little Black Book of Connections focus on positive relationship building through the offering of open, honest communications and meaningful value provision by the communicator.
Little Black Book of Connections provides immediately actionable methods for effectively engaging others in a positive, respectful manner making it a StrategyDriven recommended read.
Recommended Resources – The Pause Principle
/in Practices for Professionals, Recommended Resources/by StrategyDrivenby Kevin Cashman
About this Book
The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward
by Kevin Cashman reveals to readers the secret to dealing with their insatiable compulsion to do more and more within any given day. Kevin shows that instead of simply doing more, professionals must learn to stop, reflect, and move forward in a deliberately different manner in order to achieve more. He goes on to provide the insights and tools for pausing to accomplish more in several key areas including:
Each section is concluded with a summary of the ‘Pause Practices’ needed to excel in that area as well as a ‘Pause Point’ containing provocative questions for visioning the future you are seeking to achieve.
Benefits of Reading and Using this Book
StrategyDriven Contributors agree that today’s fast paced world compels professionals to act with a speed that limits deliberate consideration. Such restrictions heighten the risk of error, poor decisions, and deteriorating health. With the never ending push to do more with less, this condition is not likely to change soon.
The Pause Principle fills a gap within today’s leadership training. Seldom are leaders taught the value of and methods to slow down. Kevin provides actionable methods for professionals to constructively pause; using this time for valuable contemplation, innovation, and planning so to truly achieve more with less rather than at the expense of ones personal life and health.
To some extent, all professionals are decision-makers and quality decisions require deliberate contemplation. The Pause Principle reminds us of the importance of pausing so to apply the knowledge and experiences necessary for good decision-making – decision-making that leads to innovation and growth.
For its sound, immediately implementable actions promoting excellence by slowing down, The Pause Principle is a StrategyDriven recommended read.
Recommended Resources – Impatient Optimist
/in Management & Leadership, Recommended Resources/by StrategyDrivenedited by Lisa Rogak
About the Reference
Impatient Optimist
edited by Lisa Rogak reveals Bill Gates’ core beliefs about business in a way no other author has been able to achieve… because these insights come directly from Bill Gates himself. Lisa’s book systematically covers a wide range of topics from ‘Addiction to Technology’ to ‘Relinquishing Control’, from ‘Streamlining Business Processes’ to ‘His Work Habits’, and ‘Hiring Employees’ to ‘Managing Employees’.
Throughout Impatient Optimist, three predominate themes are revealed:
Benefits of Using this Reference
StrategyDriven Contributors like Impatient Optimist because it reveals the intimate thoughts and beliefs of the man who is arguably the most successful business leader of all time but who is also one of the world’s greatest philanthropists. Many of Bill Gates’ approaches align well with the principles and philosophies we recommend business leaders adopt to further their organization’s success. While we recognize some may disagree with Bill Gates’ approach to certain circumstances – and on occasion we do too – all agree he is one of the great business leaders who continues to shape our modern world.
StrategyDriven Contributors appreciated the layout of Impatient Optimist, the organization of quotes around meaningful topic areas, the dating of each quote, and Bill Gates’ life story timeline provided at the end of the book. We found that knowing the setting and circumstances of the Bill Gates’ quotes provided insightful context from which to interpret them. As such, we recommend first-time readers review the ‘Milestones’ timeline presented at the end of the book first and refer to it often when reading individual quotes.
For it’s intimate portrayal of an American entrepreneurial icon, Impatient Optimist is a StrategyDriven recommended read.
Organizational Accountability Warning Flag 3 – Artificial Retainer Driven Complacency
/in Organizational Accountability, Premium, Talent Management/by StrategyDrivenJosh Billings (1818 – 1885)
American humorist
It’s a natural human tendency to seek the path of least resistance. For executives, managers, and supervisors, this practice translates into assigning the difficult and emergent work activities to top performers, diverting work away from under-performers, and avoiding employee confrontations. The latter action erodes accountability. Leaders who do not address the shortcomings of under-performers including the provision of overly positive (even if neutral) feedback and unearned rewards (relative to top performers) loudly proclaim the merits of non-performance. Continued high performance and retention of top talent reinforces these errant practices until one day the lack of accountability drives the company’s best employees to a competitor’s business.
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Additional information regarding artificial employment restraints and how individuals can overcome them is contained within the StrategyDriven Professional Development article, Artificial Employment Restraints.