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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 1 – An Interview with Robert Thompson, author of The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable

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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 1 – An Interview with Robert Thompson, author of The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable explores some of the unique leadership challenges associated with today’s business environment. During our discussion, Robert Thompson, author of The Offsite and founder of Applied Performance, a leadership and personal communications services company, shares with us his insights regarding:

  • the five principles of the Leadership Challenge
  • the differences between management and leadership
  • whether leaders are born or developed
  • the four questions executives and managers should ask of themselves to further develop their leadership abilities

Additional Information

Complimenting the tremendous insights Robert shares in The Offsite and this special edition podcast, are the additional Leadership Challenge materials and resources found on his website, Leader Inside Out (www.LeaderInsideOut.com).

About the Author

Robert Thompson, author of The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable, is the founder of Applied Performance, a leadership and personal communications services company for entry-level through chief executive officers. For the past 25 years, he has worked with a distinguished group of clients that include AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Sony, and Sun Microsystems. To read Robert’s full biography, click here.

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Celebrating Our First Year… Looking Toward a Bright Future

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Today marks the first anniversary of the StrategyDriven website and what a year we have enjoyed! From a modest beginning on July 1, 2007, we have been joined by 344 registered members and have grown to:

  • 3362 unique monthly visitors – from 54 different countries
  • 10,434 monthly site visits – over 3 visits per visitor
  • 74,993 monthly page views – over 7 pages viewed per site visit

Our website has grown too, now offering insights on strategic business planning and tactical execution through:

  • 147 principle, best practice, and warning flag postings – covering 24 management and leadership categories
  • 19 episodes of the StrategyDriven Podcast
  • 5 whitepapers and
  • 7 models

As a community, we are fortunate to have had several of our members share their insights with us through posted comments including:

Finally, we have been complimented by many reviewers and websites linking to us including:

  • Small Business Trends Radio (www.SmBTrendWire.com)
  • EatonWeb (portal.eatonweb.com)
  • Cision (baconsblog.typepad.com)
  • Podcast Alley (www.PodcastAlley.com) – ranked number 2 or 3 of over 2000 business podcasts in four of the first six months of 2008
  • and over 100 other websites linking to StrategyDriven

Goals for Our Second Year

Seeking to be strategy driven, we have established the following series of goals for our second year. In addition to maintaining the high level of quality you, our readers and listeners, have come to expect, we are committed to providing:

  • 2 new members’ only categories
  • 4 new whitepapers
  • 4 new models
  • a templates area with 4 new templates

Additionally, we will heighten our focus on tactical execution, namely, the management and leadership practices needed to effectively execute the organization’s strategy on a day-to-day basis; creating a more aligned and accountable organization. Management and leadership focus categories will include:

with at least 5 new postings or podcasts in each category

To expand the depth of experience and breadth of perspective offered, we’ll incorporate the insights of additional business leaders through:

  • periodic podcast interviews with management and leadership experts – at least 10
  • 3 articles written by each of at least 2 new contributors

Finally, we’ll seek to grow our community; helping an increasing number of executives and managers create aligned, accountable, and successful organizations. This growth will be reflective of:

  • 1000+ registered members
  • 7500+ unique monthly visitors
  • 25,000+ monthly site visits
  • 200,000+ monthly page views
  • Podcast Alley ranking of 1, 2, or 3 from among all business podcasts for at least 8 of the next 12 months

Thank You!

The StrategyDriven family would like to thank you, our readers and listeners, for helping to make our first year a successful one! We truly value the time you spend with and the insights you offer to us and look forward to the continuing journey ahead.

All the Best,

Karen Juliano
Editor-in-Chief and
Director, Communications and Marketing

Leadership Inspirations – Recognizing Talent

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“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Tactical Execution – Some Things Get Better with Time, at least for a while

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StrategyDriven Tactical Execution ArticleExperience is almost universally valued. Those possessing it are viewed as being superior; able to perform tasks with more practiced efficiency and more easily recognizing and responding to challenges that would otherwise inhibit forward progress. The question, therefore, is this: “For a given position, will one’s experience-based effectiveness grow without limit?”

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Leadership Inspirations – Ask the Correct Question

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“A team has a certain potential. Nevertheless, simply being a team – a group of individuals wearing the same uniform or working at the same company – means little when it comes to realizing its potential. Here’s the question to be asked: ‘We are many, but are we much?’ The role of the leader is to make those ‘many’ become ‘much’.”

John Wooden
Head Coach, UCLA Men’s Basketball Team
Led his team to a record 10 NCAA National Championships and first person named to the NCAA Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach