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Leadership Inspiration – Attitude of Success

“Our attitude is the primary focus that will determine whether we succeed or fail.”

John C. Maxwell
Evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor and author of more than 50 books including The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 24 – An Interview with Jim Champy, author of INSPIRE!

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 24 – An Interview with Jim Champy, author of INSPIRE! explores how to define a consistent value proposition that impassions and continuously engages and retains customers. During our discussion, Jim Champy, author of Inspire!: Why Customers Come Back and Chairman of Consulting at Perot Systems, shares with us his insights and illustrative examples regarding:

  • what makes a company inspiring to its customers such that they are fully engaged and keep coming back
  • core customer-centric principles inspiring companies embody
  • key processes and programs inspiring companies use to embed these principles throughout the organization
  • common characteristics and behaviors of the executives leading engaging companies

Additional Information

In addition to the incredible insights Jim shares in Inspire! and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from his website at www.JimChampy.com. Jim’s book, Inspire!, published by FT Press can be purchased by clicking here.

Complimenting Inspire!, are Jim’s five other books including:


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About the Author

Jim Champy, author of Inspire!, is Chairman of Consulting at Perot Systems. He is recognized throughout the world for his work on leadership and management issues and on organizational change and business reengineering. Jim’s first book, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, sold more than 3 million copies and spent more than a year on The New York Times best seller list. He also authored the best seller, Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership, which was recognized by Business Week as one of the top ten best business books of 1995. His columns and articles appear in such magazines a Forbes, ComputerWorld, Sales and Marketing Management, Leader to Leader, and Baseline. To read Jim’s full biography, click here.

StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 2 – Profile of the Effective Leader

StrategyDriven Leadership Conversations focus on the values and behaviors characteristic of highly effective leaders. Complimenting the StrategyDriven Management & Leadership articles, these conversations examine the real world challenges managers face every day that are not easily solved with a new or redesigned process and instead demand the application of soft leadership skills to achieve a positive outcome.

Episode 2 – Profile of the Effective Leader introduces the profile of an effective by exploring the personal traits and behaviors exhibited by these remarkable individuals.

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Click here to download a list of the principles, qualities, attributes, and competencies of an effective leader.

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Leadership Inspiration – Creating Inspiration

“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”

Frank Tibolt

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 23 – An Interview with Susan Scott, author of Fierce Leadership

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 23 – An Interview with Susan Scott, author of Fierce Leadership explores how how executives and managers can transform their organizations through candid, meaningful dialogue with each other, their employees, and their customers. During our discussion, Susan Scott, author of Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst “Best” Practices of Business Today and Founder and CEO of Fierce, Inc., shares with us her insights and illustrative examples regarding:

  • what Fierce Leadership is
  • developing and using ‘squid eye‘ to recognize business practices that challenge individual and organizational success
  • engaging in ‘mineral rights‘ deep dive converations to gain full understanding of a situation including one’s personal contributions and impacts
  • the six worst ‘best’ business practices and their Fierce Leadership alternatives
  • how to promote Fierce Leadership and Fierce Converstations throughout one’s organization

Additional Information

In addition to the outstanding insights Susan shares in Fierce Leadership and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from her organization’s website at www.FierceInc.com and her books’ websites at www.FierceLeadership.com and www.FierceConversations.com. Susan’s book, Fierce Leadership, can be purchased by clicking here.

Complimenting Fierce Leadership, is Susan’s book, Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time. Fierce Conversations can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Author

Susan Scott, author of Fierce Leadership, is Founder and CEO of the global training company Fierce, Inc.. For over two decades, Susan has helped executives at companies such as Microsoft, Coke, Starbucks, Cisco, and Google transform their companies by teaching them how to engage in more vibrant dialogue with one another, their employees, and their customers. She is a globally recognized thought leader, the bestselling author of Fierce Conversations, and recipient of the 2008 Stevie award for Entrepreneur of the Year. To read Susan’s full biography, click here.