Leadership Inspirations – Experience

“The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.” Anonymous

StrategyDriven Podcast Video Edition 4 – Employee Engagement: Untapped bottom line potential

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 principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 4 – Employee Engagement: Untapped bottom line potential explores the principle components […]

Recommended Resource – Creative Thinkering

Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work by Michael Michalko About the Reference Creative Thinkering by Michael Michalko provides readers with actionable methods to tap into and broaden their natural creativity. Aimed at those who question their imaginative abilities, Michael reveals a systematic approach to generating new ideas through the association of two or more […]

Leadership Inspirations – Living

“Its not dying you should be afraid of; it’s never having lived in the first place.” Seth Rogen in The Green Hornet

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – America: Are Entrepreneurs the Bad Guys?

Watching media coverage of ‘business’ in the United States, one might imagine he is living in a socialist country where capitalism is almost a crime. From certain sectors of the media and within the circles of certain political campaigns we hear cries of anger at the ‘wealthy’ and the need for business owners to pay […]

Leadership Inspirations – Live for Today

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” Albert Einstein Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, named Time’s Man of the Century in 1999, and best known for his conception of the theories of special and general relativity

Recommended Resource – Great by Choice

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen About the Reference Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen represents a detailed assessment of companies thriving in times of uncertainty compared with similar organizations not performing so well. In the analytical tradition […]

Recommended Resource – The No Asshole Rule

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Robert Sutton About the Reference The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton provides methods for constructively dealing with the workplace bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, and egomaniacs – regardless if they are seniors, peers, or subordinates. His research provides […]

How to Prepare Yourself for the Executive Chair

Comedian Steve Martin once said that if you want to be a millionaire, the first thing you have to do is get a million dollars. Most advice for positioning yourself for executive positions mirrors Martin’s sentiments: If you want to land in the executive chair, the first thing you need to do is get executive […]

StrategyDriven Tactical Execution Best Practice Article

Tactical Execution Best Practice 6 – Succession of Authority

Limited resources, personnel, financial, and material, are a constraining reality faced by every business. These constraints prevent leaders from executing on business activities and in some avoidable cases result in customers not receiving the goods and services to which they are entitled. In other instances, business operations cease altogether. While demand spikes cannot be perfectly anticipated, policy-induced limitations are fully avoidable and often inexcusable. An executable authority succession pan is one such mechanism used to avoid a policy-driven operational stoppage.