StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 22 – An Interview with Michael Bender, author of A Manager’s Guide to Project Management

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 22 – An Interview with Michael Bender, author of A Manager’s Guide to […]

Whacked-Out Workplaces: How Dysfunctional is Yours?

We’ve all been there. You walk into a bank, restaurant or store and suddenly feel it, that vague sensation that all is not well. It drips from the ceilings and sits in puddles on the floor. The employees are lost in thought, unable to decide whether they’d rather be somewhere else or stay and kill […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 21a – An Interview with Duane Sparks, author of Action Selling

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 21a – An Interview with Duane Sparks, author of Action Selling explores the […]

Leadership Inspirations – Make a Difference

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 20b – An Interview with Gary Cohen, author of Just Ask Leadership, part 2 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 20b – An Interview with Gary Cohen, author of Just Ask Leadership, part […]

StrategyDriven Management Observation Program Best Practice Article

Management Observation Program Best Practice 5 – Observation Training, Grading, and Quality Assessments

Management observations profoundly influence the behaviors of those observed. Done well, this tool positively reinforces desired behaviors. Performed poorly, this tool will undermine the management team’s credibility and fosters cynicism towards managers and their performance standards requirements. Therefore, it is critical that those performing these observations do so in a consistent, high quality manner.

Leadership Inspirations – The Difference Between Might and Right

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 20a – An Interview with Gary Cohen, author of Just Ask Leadership, 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 20a – An Interview with Gary Cohen, author of Just Ask Leadership, part […]

Management and Leadership Warning Flag 1 – Working Managers

Regardless of the organization, all managers share common job functions and responsibilities including defining and reinforcing performance standards, establishing organizational priorities, and authorizing and coordinating personnel activities and resource use. This work is distinctly different than that of the individual contributors reporting to the manager; setting the manager apart as one who possesses a broader scope of responsibility and commensurate authority.


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Leadership Inspirations – Vision, Focus, and Determination

“If you can say, ‘I have Vision, Focus, Determination, Patience, Courage, Confidence, and Faithfulness,’ you are on your way to success… Now walk it out and have at it!” Howard T. Dickens Jr.