StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 64 – An Interview with Jason Jennings, author of The Reinventors

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 64 – An Interview with Jason Jennings, author of The Reinventors explores how […]

Recommended Resource – Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail

Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail: Governance and Management Lessons from the Crisis by Thomas Stanton About the Book Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail by Thomas Stanton examines the fundamental shortcomings of both public and private financial sector companies as revealed during America’s ‘Great Recession.’ Thomas focuses on the areas of management, […]

Recommended Resource – The Reinventors

The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change by Jason Jennings About the Book The Reinventors by Jason Jennings provides a step-by-step method for continuously evolving one’s organization such that it remains ever relevant in today’s rapidly changing business environment. Jason examines not only the change methodology to be employed but provides insights to […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

A dozen books to own and read – at least once.

When Jim Rohn said, “All the information you need to succeed already exists, the problem is you haven’t exposed yourself to it,” it was one of the most challenging and eye-opening statements I had ever heard. I immediately made a lifelong goal to read a thousand books. I have not reached that goal yet, but […]

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Hank Moore

The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning

Frame of reference is everything in business. Different people within the same organization have contrasting views as to the Business They’re Really In. The term Budgeting gets tossed around in many ways. Budgets get blamed for gridlock. Budgets get politicized. Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and […]

Recommended Resource – The Pivot Point

The Pivot Point: Success in Organizational Change by Victoria M. Grady and James D. Grady About the Book The Pivot Point by Drs. Victoria and James Grady is a business novel presenting a unique perspective on effectively implementing organizational change based on group and individual psychodynamics. Within their book, Victoria and James examine decades of […]

Linda Henman

Leadership Lessons from Zombies

Sometime in the past two years, perhaps while we were distracted by the vampire craze, zombies started presenting a more menacing presence. Scores of television programs, movies, and books have seemingly sprung from nowhere to teach us to survive a zombie attack. For example, Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, has dominated […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

Are you the dominant brand, or is your brand bland?

What’s the difference between you and all of your competition? Are you different from your competition, or do you just THINK you are? Are you different from your competition, or do you just tell customers and prospects you are? Or are you different from your competition, and others CLEARLY perceive you as both different and […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 63 – An Interview with Victoria Grady, author of The Pivot Point

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 63 – An Interview with Victoria Grady, author of The Pivot Point explores […]

Jeffrey Gitomer

The Eiffel Tower: An iconic monument and a critical lesson.

We went to visit the Eiffel tower again. Our fourth visit in five years. What do you know about the Eiffel Tower? When it was built it was, to say the least, the most controversial structure of all time. Hundreds protested it, criticized it, campaigned against it, said it was a disgrace to architecture, and […]