StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Managing Health Insurance Plans

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective podcasts examine the unnecessary marketplace uncertainty created by today’s headline events and the actions business leaders should take to ensure their organizations succeed under these circumstances. In Managing Health Insurance Plans, we are joined by George Pantos, Executive Director of the Healthcare Performance Management Institute. George shares his thoughts on how companies […]

Leadership Inspirations – Great Vision

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.” Jack Welch Respected business leader and former Chairman and CEO of General Electric (1981 – 2001)

The Five Floors of Relationships

I know thousands of people, and many of them wield tremendous influence. If life and business were all about “who you know,” then I’d be set. But none of those relationships took on extraordinary value unless I approached them with the idea that they mattered for something above and beyond the transaction. I think of […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 36 – The Warning Signs of Employee Disenfranchisement

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. Episode 36 – The Warning Signs of Employee Disenfranchisement explores the warning signs of employee […]

“Dead”-On Business Rules: Ten Tie-Dyed and True Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, part 1 of 2

Viral marketing and social networking have arrived on the scene after a long, strange trip indeed. The Grateful Dead were much more than a bunch of rock-and-roll geniuses; they were pioneers of the digital age marketing landscape. When you think marketing visionaries, what companies come to mind? Apple? Google? Maybe even Microsoft? It’s true that […]

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Article

Business Performance Assessment Program – The Vertical Slice Assessment Approach

All company functions are constrained by limited resources. As such, it is impossible for an organization to self assess every activity it performs. Therefore, business performance assessments need to be executed in a way that identifies the significant improvement opportunities at the lowest possible cost. One such approach is to do a thorough end-to-end review of a few occurrences of high value process.

Recommended Resources – An Interview with Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan, authors of Leading Outside the Lines

Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results by Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan Every enterprise has an informal as well as a formal organization. The formal is the side with which business people are usually most familiar. It consists of analyses, strategies, structures, processes and […]

Leadership Inspirations – Be Ready for Change

“Change brings opportunities when people have been planning for it, are ready for it and have just the thing in mind to do when the new state comes into being.” Rosabeth Moss Kanter Harvard Business School Professor

Agile Balance – What it is… What it does… How to get it, part 2 of 2

As in nature, Agile Balance requires an organic inside out commitment to stay on course. That’s why I always suggest planting my The Four Commitment QuestionsTM deeply to keep every Jack and Jill on plan, on target and in engaged collaboration. The Four Commitment QuestionsTM (What Can I Do More of, Less of, Start and […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 46 – An Interview with David Axson, author of The Management Mythbuster

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 46 – An Interview with David Axson, author of The Management Mythbuster explores […]