Leadership Inspirations – Planned Fortune

“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” Thomas Edison(1847 – 1931) American inventor, scientist and businessman

The Apollo Attitude – When Failure is Not an Option

It’s hard to beat the movie Apollo 13 for drama. Over 200,000 miles from Earth, in the vacuum of space, an explosion disabled a space capsule on its way to the Moon. The mission was over. And it would have been reasonable to assume the astronauts’ lives were over, too. Yet three days later, the […]

Leadership Inspirations – What Lies Within

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lives within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist, philosopher, and poet

Are You a Good Leader?

You will be if you draw on key ethical principles. Here’s how to do it, whether you’re a CEO, a banker, an entrepreneur, or anyone else in business “Never underestimate the other guy’s greed.” This isn’t just a classic line from the 1983 Brian De Palma film, Scarface (written by Oliver Stone). It also reflects […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 27 – An Interview with Chris Edgar, author of Inner Productivity

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 27 – An Interview with Chris Edgar, author of Inner Productivity explores how […]

Leadership Inspirations – Showing Up

“Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.” Dianne Houston American director and screenwriter

Customer Satisfaction: A Flawed Measure

Your customers want more than “satisfying” transactions – they want engaging relationships To master the new discipline of the emotional economy, business leaders need a new way to think about “customer requirements” and a new set of tools to help structure their businesses around them. But exactly how should they construct a new definition of […]

The Ethical Executive

Hardly a month goes by – or so it seems – without yet another headline about apparent unethical behavior in the executive suite: from criminal misrepresentation, to tax evasion, manipulation of accounts, and a whole smorgasbord of fraud. Not surprisingly, as investors, employees, legislators, or simply bemused observers of human behavior, we all want the […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 26 – An Interview with Omar Khan, author of Liberating Passion

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 26 – An Interview with Omar Khan, author of Liberating Passion examines how […]

The Ten Commandments of Workplace Motivation

Unmotivated employees have rightly been called “the black holes of the business universe.” Fortunately, motivation is not something a person is born with or without. Applying these Ten Commandments can go a long way to helping existing employees find their motivation. 1. Commit with all thy heart so others might follow Before you ask your […]