StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 22 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 3 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 22 identifies ten questions to explore when seeking to identify both documented and undocumented hidden performance drivers and recaps the key concepts presented in the hidden drivers trilogy.

Leadership Inspirations – Dangers of Asking the Wrong Question

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.” Peter Drucker ‘Father of Modern Management’ and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 21 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 2 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 21 explores examples of undocumented, hidden cultural drivers and their frequent relationship to an organization’s culture and history as well as the personal ambitions of its employees.

Leadership Inspirations – Evaluating the Uncertain

“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.” Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the first Honorary Citizen of the United States

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 20 – Identify the Hidden Drivers, part 1 of 3

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 20 identifies what hidden performance drivers are, examines the often unintended impact of hidden drivers on an organization, and explores examples of documented hidden drivers.

Leadership Inspirations – Intentions versus Results

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results” Milton Friedman Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Medal of Science

StrategyDriven Resource Projection Best Practice Article

Resource Projection Best Practice 6 – The 45 Week Year

There are 52 weeks in a year. So a full-time employee works 52 weeks in a year, right? Wrong!

Leadership Inspirations – The Pioneer’s Creed

“The cowards never started, the weak died on the way, and only the strong survived.” The Pioneer’s Creed

StrategyDriven Resource Projection Best Practice Article

Resource Projection Best Practice 5 – The 40 Hour Work Week

For the purposes of personnel resource estimation, what is an individual worth? The answer may seem obvious. A full-time equivalent (FTE) or full-time employee is typically considered to be ‘worth’ 2000 hours of labor per year; calculated as the product of fifty, 40 hour work weeks.

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 1 - An Interview with Robert Thompson, author of The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 1 – An Interview with Robert Thompson, author of The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable

Robert Thompson, author of The Offsite and founder of Applied Performance, a leadership and personal communications services company, shares with us his insights regarding: the five principles of the Leadership Challenge, the differences between management and leadership, whether leaders are born or developed, and the four questions executives and managers should ask of themselves to further develop their leadership abilities.