Leadership Inspirations – Team Commitment

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi (1913 – 1970) Green Bay Packers Head Coach from 1959 to 1967, winning five league championships during these nine years Following his death in September 1970, the NFL’s ‘World Championship […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 30 – The Cost of Not Engaging Employees

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 30 – The Cost of Not Engaging Employees explores the cost of not engaging […]

StrategyDriven Decision-Making Warning Flag Article

Decision-Making Warning Flag 1c – ad hominem: Personal, Not Issue Attacks

Ad hominem arguments are bias-based logic fallacies made to support business decisions every day.

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Leadership Inspirations – Face the Opposition

“This week, stand toe-to-toe and eye-to-eye with the opposition to your success and say, ‘You won’t stop me. My destiny is victory and my birthname, winner. Bring it!’” Howard T. Dickens Jr.

To PR or not to PR: PR is not a verb!

This is not an article debating the changing landscape of the public relations or advertising industry, or preaching best practice advice, but rather an examination of the two simple letters that encompass all that we (as communications professionals) do: PR. As a public relations professional, I respect that there are some commonplace misconceptions about what […]

StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability Best Practice Article

Organizational Accountability Best Practice 2 – Data Transparency

Organizations live and die by the decisions of executives and managers and the actions of employees. Therefore, individuals must be held accountable for their work that both helps and hinders goal achievement if the organization expects to thrive. This accountability can only happen, however, if the decisions/actions and associated results are visible. Data transparency helps create this visibility.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Self Inflicted Uncertainty

On February 2, Dow Jones reported the Obama Administration’s decision not to expand the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve as had been provisioned under the Energy Act of 20051. Energy Secretary Steven Chu indicated the basis for the decision was that the current reserve of 727 million barrels of crude oil met international standards. (The International […]

Leadership Inspirations – The Price of Success

“There is a price for success but there is also a price for failure. Given the choice, the price of success clearly has the best return on investment.” Michael Angier Father, husband, writer, speaker, entrepreneur, coach and student; Founder and President of Success Networks International “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and […]

StrategyDriven Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice Article

Predefined and Reinforced Data Standards

You’ve heard it a million times, “garbage in, garbage out.” But this axiom couldn’t be more true than in the case of organizational performance measures where in so many instances even a minute change in the data entered results in a profoundly different indicated performance. So how can an organization’s leaders be confident in the accuracy of their performance measurement data and the resulting measures? By defining and reinforcing a comprehensive set of organizational performance measure data standards.

Can You Hear Me Now? Top Tips To Make Sure Your Communication Isn’t Breaking Up

We don’t know what we don’t know and this is why communication can be challenging. How many of us can honestly say we’re 100% sure our messages are heard and that we’re always perceived as confident, credible and trustworthy? Have you ever walked away from a meeting, media interview or face-to-face conversation with a client […]