StrategyDriven Podcast Video Edition 2 – What makes an organization StrategyDriven?

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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 principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 2 – What makes an organization StrategyDriven? examines the qualities and characteristics of a StrategyDriven organization as well as the benefits these organizations realize over competing firms not so well aligned.
 


 
Learn more about how to become truly StrategyDriven by reading: The StrategyDriven Organization.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 60 – An Interview with Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead

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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 60 – An Interview with Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead explores the four key questions every leader must answer and the principles behind those questions every leader must embrace in order to be truly effective. During our discussion, Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders, shares with us his insights and experiences regarding:

  • the four critical questions every leader must answer
  • how a leader can identify who he/she is and what he/she believes in
  • how a leader can convey their beliefs and values to followers in a way that is constructive and understandable
  • what leaders must do to earn the right to lead others

Additional Information

In addition to the outstanding insights Doug shares in If You Will Lead and this special edition podcast are the resources accessible from his website, www.IfYouWillLead.net.   Doug’s book, If You Will Lead, can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Author

Doug Moran, author of If You Will Lead, is the founder of If You Will Lead, LLC, a firm providing leadership development and executive coaching advisory services. Throughout his career, Doug has served in leadership roles including several executive positions within Capital One Financial Services and as Virginia’s Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources. To read Doug’s complete biography, click here.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Video Edition 1 – What is Diversity and Inclusion?

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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 principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 1 – What is Diversity and Inclusion? examines the definition of diversity and inclusion by…

  • providing a conceptual definition of diversity and inclusion
  • illustrating what diversity and inclusion looks like in action
  • highlighting what diversity and inclusion is not
  • describing some of the many benefits diverse and inclusive organizations realize over those not sharing these values


Learn more about what it means to be diverse and inclusive by reading: What is Diversity and Inclusion?.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 59 – An Interview with David Aaker, author of Brand Relevance

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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 59 – An Interview with David Aaker, author of Brand Relevance explores the creation of offerings so different that they create unique categories within which customers perceive no other product or service alternatives. During our discussion, David Aaker, author of Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant, shares with us his insights and experiences regarding:

  • the difference between brand relevance and brand preference
  • advantages of achieving brand relevance over brand preference
  • several key factors needed to gain brand relevance
  • how a company establishes and manages a new category or sub-category
  • how a company maintains brand relevance over time
  • key characteristics and competencies an organization must have to successfully pursue a brand relevance strategy

Additional Information

In addition to the outstanding insights David shares in Brand Relevance and this special edition podcast are the resources accessible from his website, www.Prophet.com.   David’s book, Brand Relevance, can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Author

David Aaker, author of Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant, is Vice-Chairman of Prophet, a marketing consultancy that helps senior executives balance their organization’s short-term business needs against their long-term growth goals, and Professor Emeritus of Marketing Strategy at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. One of the world’s leading experts on branding and the winner of three awards for lifetime contributions to the science of marketing, David has published over 100 articles and fourteen books; including Strategic Market Management that has been translated into eighteen languages. To read David’s complete biography, click here.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading

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Special Edition 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading introduces a method of self-reflection and growth that individuals can use to become better leaders and to foster leadership excellence within their organization. During our discussion, Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading for Those with Little Time for Reading, shares with us his leadership insights and experiences regarding:

  • his most important leadership lesson and why each individual’s most important lesson is necessarily different
  • how to translate the fifty leadership lessons into day-to-day actions
  • how executives and managers can use the fifty leadership lessons to further develop the leadership skills of those who report to them

Additional Information

In addition to the outstanding insights Steve shares in 50 Lessons on Leading and this special edition podcast are the resources accessible from his website, www.50LessonsOnLeading.com.   Steve’s book, 50 Lessons on Leading, can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Author

Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading, is the principal architect and creator of Politics of CreativityTM, a distinctive and groundbreaking leadership framework that fosters creativity and innovation by helping leaders develop the needed political skills to address ‘taboo’ topics that inhibit innovation and undermine productivity. He is a frequent keynote speaker and facilitator at conferences and seminars worldwide. To read Steve’s complete biography, click here.

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