StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 19 – An Interview with Arlene Johnson, author of Success Mapping

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 19 – An Interview with Arlene Johnson, author of Success Mapping explores how […]

StrategyDriven Succession and Succession Planning Best Practice Article

Succession and Succession Planning Best Practice 1 – Turnover Checklists

Every position in any company will necessarily be different than even the same position within any other organization. These differences stem from the unique organizational personnel, policies, culture, and marketplace positioning and environment. To be best prepared to assume his or her new role, a successor must have a thorough understanding of all of the position’s critical success factors, drivers, and influencers. Turnover checklists leverage the collective experiences of past position holders to help ensure successors receive all of this vital area knowledge.

Leadership Inspirations – Solving Problems

Albert Einstein is arguably one of the greatest problem solvers of all time. Whether examining a physical phenomenon or business challenge his thoughts on problem solving are timelessly applicable. Below are some of these philosophies: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” “It takes a […]

Leadership Inspirations – Experience, Experiment, Expectations

“The past is an experience! The present is an experiment! The future is expectations! Use your experience in your experiment to achieve your expectations!” Anonymous

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 18 – An Interview with Roxanne Emmerich, author of Thank God It’s Monday!

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 18 – An Interview with Roxanne Emmerich, author of Thank God It’s Monday! […]

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Article | Three Whys Deep

Business Performance Assessment Program Best Practice 6 – Three Whys Deep

Executives, managers, and individual contributors familiar with the day-to-day workings of their organizations undoubtedly know or have contrived the reason for ‘why things are the way they are.’ Beyond this understanding, sometimes at an unconscious level, these individuals will perceive one or more drivers to these organization shaping whys. What remains unseen and unthought-of are the tertiary and lower level drivers to why the business performs as it does. It is here that truly useful insight can be gained; insight enabling the foundational changes needed to alter the organization’s direction and propel it to the next level.

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 1 – An Introduction to Leadership Effectiveness

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 […]

Recommended Resources – An Interview with Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky, authors of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky provides guiding questions, worksheets, and exercises to help business […]

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Best Practice Article

Business Performance Assessment Program Best Practice 5 – Seek Local Participation for Context

Properly performed self assessments provide business leaders with deep insights as to what is working well and opportunities for improvement within a business function, area, or process. These insights become even more beneficial when the practices and results of top performers are used as a reference or benchmark for the evaluation. Best practices, however, are not always relevant to every situation or circumstance. Therefore, it is important to consider local context when evaluating performance against accepted best practices.

Problem-Solving Success Tip: Measure

Measure. The first key question to answer in starting a problem-solving project is, “How will you know when the problem is solved?” Answer this question in measurable terms before you start trying to solve the problem. As you begin defining your problem, these success metrics help set clear expectations about what will be different when […]