Archive for Management & Leadership
Tactical Execution Best Practice 6 – Succession of Authority
“You are not open for business unless you are ready to do business.” StrategyDriven Contributors 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 [...]
Read moreRecommended 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 [...]
Read moreTen 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 [...]
Read morePractices for Professionals – Effective Use of Discretionary Effort
In this fast-paced marketplace and certainly during these challenging economic conditions, StrategyDriven Professionals typically find themselves working more than forty hours a work. More common among these professionals is a forty-five hour work week with others working fifty hours a week. When these hours are mandated by one’s role, for instance as a rotating shiftwork [...]
Read moreHow to Turn Disagreements into Great Decisions for Your Small Business
I find if flattering when someone on my team disagrees with me. It says they care more about the firm than themselves or offending me. The first thing we cover at our two-day strategic planning session is our ‘Rules of Engagement’. It’s posted on an oversized sheet and taped to the wall. It says:
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