StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Believe None of What You Hear

Ever known a politician to renege on a campaign promise, say something misleading or simply just wrong? So many politicians lie (we don’t mince words here… if our children told such stories we’d punish them for lying) that we accept it as a part of the political game. And members of both parties are guilty […]

StrategyDriven Decision-Making Best Practice Article

Decision-Making Best Practice 7 – Identify the Decision-Maker

Organizations confer varying degrees of decision-making authority to their executives, managers, and employees typically based on their positions within the organization. In many circumstances, this results in more than one individual possessing the authority to render a decision for the particular question at hand. Because there should be only one decision-making authority, it becomes necessary to identify who among the potential decision-makers is the individual on whose authority the selected course of action will be taken.

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 29 – An Interview with Tammy Erickson, author of What’s Next, Gen X?

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 published on the StrategyDriven website. Special Edition 29 – An Interview with Tammy Erickson, author of What’s Next, Gen […]

StrategyDriven Succession and Succession Planning Best Practice Article

Succession and Succession Planning Best Practice 3 – Continuing Education

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

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 […]

Leadership Inspirations – Attitude

“Attitude is the foundation and support for everything you do. It’s the key element in the process of controlling your destiny.” Keith D. Harrell Motivational speaker, America’s Attitude Coach

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 28 – An Interview with Ken Blanchard, author of Leading at a Higher Level

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 published on the StrategyDriven website. Special Edition 28 – An Interview with Ken Blanchard, author of Leading at a […]

Adjusting Your Character Settings: The Authenticity of Leadership

If you are a member of Facebook, then you may be aware that the default privacy settings are being changed. I don’t lay awake at night worrying that someone is going to do something awful with the information that I post on Facebook, but I took the recommendation to adjust my settings so that only […]

StrategyDriven Decision-Making Best Practice Article

Decision-Making Best Practice 6 – Follow-up Assessments

Decisions, both large and small, define an organization, its culture, its direction, its public image, and ultimately its success or failure. Each decision and the process of making and executing on it provide all those involved with a new experience from which to draw upon when making future selections. Organizations, however, are living things; people come and go, memories fade, and circumstances change. Therefore, in order to fully benefit from the hard won and often expensive experience gained through decision-making, a mechanism must be in place to gather, assess, and then make available these lessons learned.