StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 34a – An Interview with Dave Esler, co-author of The Pursuit of Something Better, part 1 of 2

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 34a – An Interview with Dave Esler, co-author of The Pursuit of Something […]

StrategyDriven Project Management Warning Flag Article

Project Management Warning Flag 3 – Frequent Re-baselining

Changing circumstances and constrained resources challenge the on-time, on-budget completion of every project. And in the real business world, some projects incur significant scope changes and others will fall behind schedule.

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Government as Owner and Regulator: The Ultimate Conflict of Interest

What would it be like to have the ultimate home court advantage? How about: Defining the rules of the game; Changing the rules of the game, in your favor of course, at any time after the game has started; Refereeing the game and being allowed to choose when and when not to penalize your team […]

Leadership Inspirations – Defeat is Temporary

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” Marilyn vos Savant American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 33 – An Interview with Larry Myler, author of Indispensable By Monday

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 33 – An Interview with Larry Myler, author of Indispensable By Monday explores […]

Creating a Visual Company: What it means and why productivity hinges upon it

In a Visual Company people communicate visually with flowcharts, mind maps and other visuals just as frequently as they do with written documents. Why? We live in exponential times. It’s estimated that more unique information will be generated this year alone than in the previous five thousand years combined! We’ve all heard the saying “a […]

StrategyDriven Standards and Expectations Warning Flag Article

Standards and Expectations Warning Flag 1 – Standards Creep

Have you ever been confronted by a customer’s challenge that your product or service quality just isn’t what it used to be? Or notice the number of quality defects in your products or services has somehow increased over the past months, quarters, or years? Or felt so much pressure to get something done that you deemed the quality to be ‘good enough for government work?’

All of these are signs of standards creep; not a beneficial raising of the bar but rather an allowance of ever worsening performance.

StrategyDriven Change Management Article

Get Buy-In First Before Initiating Strategic Change

Initiatives involve change. Yet no matter how essential or critical the change, change is fraught with pitfalls that are costly. The problem is that too often the change is a push from the top, with the assumption being that because the initiative is important, and well presented, that folks will naturally buy-in. But we know […]

Leadership Inspirations – Attitude Foundation

“Attitude is the foundation and support for everything you do. It’s the key element in the process of controlling your destiny.” Keith D. Harrell Motivational speaker and life coach

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 32 – An Interview with Nilofer Merchant, author of The New How

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 32 – An Interview with Nilofer Merchant, author of The New How explores […]