Leadership Inspirations – Bringing the Future into the Present

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” Alan Lakein Well-known author on personal time management and creator of Lakein’s Question: “What is the best use of my time right now?”

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 28 – Responsibility-Driven Leadership

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 found on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 28 – Responsibility-Driven Leadership examines why now more than ever, people seek leaders […]

Top 10 Workplace Dysfunctions – And How to TERMINATE Them

The dysfunctional workplace is a killer. Untreated, the dysfunction will kill off your customer base, your profits, and your joy for living as surely as anything. So you’ve got to kill it first. The Top Ten Dysfunctions – and the cure for each No. 1: People being at odds with each other with no desire […]

New Whitepaper Release – Evaluating Decision Options

StrategyDriven contributors are pleased to announce the release of our sixth whitepaper: Evaluating Decision Options. Options and Tradeoffs… Decision-making often involves trade-offs. Risk aversion suggests that all things being equal, decision-makers will select the option having the lowest risk. But because all things are never quite equal, decision-makers concede items they deem to be of […]

Leadership Inspirations – Shared Intelligence

“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.” Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1919)

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 21c – An Interview with Duane Sparks, author of Questions: The Answer to Sales

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 21c – An Interview with Duane Sparks, author of Questions: The Answer to […]

StrategyDriven Resource Management Best Practice Article

Resource Management Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Assessment of the Market Availability of Strategic Resources

Market changes can make once plentiful resources scarce. The recent retirement eligibility of Baby Boomer generation workers and the relatively small size of the follow-on Generation X workforce represents one example of a market change that is creating a shortage of experienced workers in many industries. While this change could be readily anticipated, others such as government sponsored large scale infrastructure projects which consume significant quantities of materials, heavy equipment, and personnel are less predictable. Thus, it is important for organizations to identify needed strategic resources and assess their market availability on an ongoing basis.

Leadership Inspiration – Attitude of Success

“Our attitude is the primary focus that will determine whether we succeed or fail.” John C. Maxwell Evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor and author of more than 50 books including The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 24 – An Interview with Jim Champy, author of INSPIRE!

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 24 – An Interview with Jim Champy, author of INSPIRE! explores how to […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 2 – Profile of the Effective Leader

StrategyDriven Leadership Conversations focus on the values and behaviors characteristic of highly effective leaders. Complimenting the StrategyDriven Management & Leadership articles, these conversations examine the real world challenges managers face every day that are not easily solved with a new or redesigned process and instead demand the application of soft leadership skills to achieve a […]