StrategyDriven Tactical Execution Best Practice Article

Tactical Execution Best Practice 6 – Succession of Authority

Limited resources, personnel, financial, and material, are a constraining reality faced by every business. These constraints prevent leaders from executing on business activities and in some avoidable cases result in customers not receiving the goods and services to which they are entitled. In other instances, business operations cease altogether. While demand spikes cannot be perfectly anticipated, policy-induced limitations are fully avoidable and often inexcusable. An executable authority succession pan is one such mechanism used to avoid a policy-driven operational stoppage.

Leadership Inspirations – Resistance

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor…

Recommended Resource – How to Win Friends & Influence People

How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie About the Reference How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is the timeless classic that reveals how leaders can engage and motivate individuals to become teams; joining together to achieve a common purpose and produce more than the sum of their singular […]

StrategyDriven Risk Management Best Practice Article

Risk Management Best Practice 2 – Integrated Risk Assurance Oversight Matrix

Maintaining compliance in today’s highly regulated, rule-driven marketplace requires diligent oversight of the organization’s core processes by the company’s staff. This oversight takes many forms from internal audits, self-assessments, management observations, and quality checkpoints embedded within the processes themselves. These points of oversight, however, may individually fall short from providing fully effective compliance risk assurance. Therefore, deliberate action should be taken to marry these assurance activities into a single cohesive program.

Leadership Inspirations – Doing Great Work

“To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.” Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) Iconoclastic Victorian author

Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear

Finance Without Fear: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger About the Reference Finance Without Fear: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger unveals the mysteries of financial statements in this easy-to-understand, example filled book. William and […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Video Edition 3 – Framework for Aligning an Organization

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 principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 3 – Framework for Aligning an Organization explores the mechanisms needed to […]

StrategyDriven Risk Management Best Practice Article

Risk Management Best Practice 1 – Map Corporate Risks to Operational Processes

All enterprises face a unique set of risks that threatens long-term organizational success and viability. Like corporate level performance measures, it can be difficult to readily ‘see’ the day-to-day activities that initiate, amplify, or mitigate these risks. Mapping corporate risks to the line organization’s executable processes illuminates the risk related activities so they can be appropriately monitored and managed.

Leadership Inspirations – Complex Motivation

“No man does anything from a single motive.” Samuel Coleridge (1772 – 1834) English poet, literary critic, and philosopher

Ten Ways to Engage Your Workforce in 2012

As we start a new year, leaders will once again ask themselves how they can engage their people – often asking employees to do more with less. Let me start by observing that you can’t motivate people. You need to hire motivated top performers and then make sure you don’t demotivate them. Here are some […]