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StrategyDriven Podcast Receives Top Honors in February

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The StrategyDriven Team would like to thank you, our listeners, for helping us achieve the third place ranking for the StrategyDriven Podcast from among the over 2700 business podcasts listed on Podcast Alley in February! In each episode, our co-hosts present a richer and deeper exploration of the principle, best practice, and warning flag articles […]

Succession and Succession Planning Best Practice 3 – Continuing Education

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It is simply not enough that individuals holding senior positions be highly experienced. The narrowness of early career positions and the limitations of time necessarily prevents an individual from being deeply experienced across the full range of functions within the organization. Thus, those relying purely on experience often lack an understanding of the broader spectrum of organization functions and opportunities that would help them be more successful in senior positions requiring multidimensional business understanding.

In Tough Times Passion Keeps Businesses Afloat

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In our book, Liberating Passion, Paul B. Brown and I contend that businesses seek passionate people. This matters in tough economic times more than ever. Why? Because passionate commitment converts potential talent into the actual performance that struggling businesses need to survive. Moreover, the opposites – apathy and disengagement – are poor ways to get […]