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Corporate Cultures – Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

The Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment is the centerpoint of StrategyDriven Culture-base Work Performance Model. This culture set represents a moderation of most benefits and risks. Subsequently, organizations can more easily flex in the cultural direction needed to implement a change. Conversely, these moderated cultural characteristics may lack the significant intensity necessary to rapidly drive change.


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Recommended Resource – How to Win Friends & Influence People

How To Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie

About the Reference

How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is the timeless classic that reveals how leaders can engage and motivate individuals to become teams; joining together to achieve a common purpose and produce more than the sum of their singular efforts. This book unveils:

  • The six ways to make people like you
  • The twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking
  • The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment

Benefits of Using this Reference

StrategyDriven Contributors like How to Win Friends and Influence People because is provides the reader with easily understood and actionable methods of influencing people without being manipulative; engaging and motivating them to achieve more together than they could as individuals.

StrategyDriven Contributors believe that while leaders naturally act to serve and promote their self interests, it is equally important to benefit those who are supporting those initiatives. Dale Carnegie’s prescription for advancing one’s agenda is a benevolent, win-win approach that influences instead of manipulates. His ‘honorable’ approach to winning people’s support makes How to Win Friends and Influence People a StrategyDriven recommended read.

Risk Management Best Practice 2 – Integrated Risk Assurance Oversight Matrix

Maintaining compliance in today’s highly regulated, rule-driven marketplace requires diligent oversight of the organization’s core processes by the company’s staff. This oversight takes many forms from internal audits, self-assessments, management observations, and quality checkpoints embedded within the processes themselves. These points of oversight, however, may individually fall short from providing fully effective compliance risk assurance. Therefore, deliberate action should be taken to marry these assurance activities into a single cohesive program.


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Additional Information

StrategyDriven provides other informative articles and tools on how to synthesize data to create a complete picture of performance. These include:

Risk Management Best Practice 1 – Map Corporate Risks to Operational Processes

All enterprises face a unique set of risks that threatens long-term organizational success and viability. Like corporate level performance measures, it can be difficult to readily ‘see’ the day-to-day activities that initiate, amplify, or mitigate these risks. Mapping corporate risks to the line organization’s executable processes illuminates the risk related activities so they can be appropriately monitored and managed.


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Ten Ways to Engage Your Workforce in 2012

As we start a new year, leaders will once again ask themselves how they can engage their people – often asking employees to do more with less. Let me start by observing that you can’t motivate people. You need to hire motivated top performers and then make sure you don’t demotivate them. Here are some ways to ensure you don’t:


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About the Author

Dr. Linda Henman, the catalyst for virtuoso organizations, is the author of Landing in the Executive Chair, among other works. She is an expert on setting strategy, planning succession, and developing talent. For more than 30 years she has helped executives and boards in Fortune 500 Companies and privately-held organizations dramatically grow their businesses. She was one of eight succession planning experts who worked directly with John Tyson after his company’s acquisition of International Beef Products. Some of her other clients include Emerson Electric, Avon, Kraft Foods, Edward Jones, and Boeing. She can be reached in St. Louis at www.henmanperformancegroup.com.