Top Ten Pitfalls to Avoid When Going Social in the Business World

Businesses can gain a lot from building a “Social Nation,” but only if you’re networking smart. If you were to make a list of up-and-coming business trends, social media strategies would probably be near the top. Actually, scratch that “up-and-coming” part – social media is already here. However, thousands of companies are rushing headlong into […]

Leadership Inspirations – A Better Tomorrow

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” Charles F. Kettering (1876 – 1958) American inventor and the holder of 140 patents

Set the Stage for Engagement

Low pay is a dissatisfaction for employees but high pay by itself won’t keep the best people around. Transactional leadership might be a motivator when money and better benefits are available, but today’s climate seems to lend itself more to transformational leadership where a caring leadership can stimulate innovation, creative thinking, and productivity. In Healing […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing

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 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of […]

Corporate Diversity Still Coming Up Short for Women

Review of S&P 100 Shows Women Account For Fewer Than 1 in 10 Top Paid Executives, 1 in 5 Board Members. Women may make up more than half the workforce1 but continue to be significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in C-level executive positions, according to a major new study released today by Calvert Investments, […]

StrategyDriven Project Management Best Practice Article

Project Management Best Practice 6 – A+ Players

Mission critical projects often impact not only large portions of the employee population but the ability of the company to be competitive and to carry out important functions over the long-term. In fact, some projects are so important that board members and company officers literally bet the company’s very existence on the successful outcome of the initiative. With stakes this high, the question becomes: Can company leaders afford to assign anyone other than their most talented personnel to conceive, develop, and implement these initiatives?

Lessons from the Best Global Brands 2010: Building trust and stability in the age of transparency

This year, Interbrand’s annual Best Global Brands 2010 ranking of the top 100 brands was notable for showing a remarkable shift in consumers’ spending habits. Public scandals like the BP oil spill and Goldman Sachs’ mortgage securities fraud compromised consumers’ trust in brands, and as a result, consumer loyalty was at an all-time low. At […]

Leadership Inspirations – Recovery

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius (551 – 479 BC) Chinese thinker and social philosopher

Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 2 (Segment Two)

In Part Two – Segment Two will complete the discussion on a trusting organization. These 10 principles of trust when employed consistently to your entire organization without bias will build a bridge of loyalty that will stand against the elements. People do not willingly leave organizations built on moorings as strong as trust. This article […]

Lock in and Engage Top Talent

In good times and bad, organizations have learned about the impact of thinking that employees are dispensable. Such thought is particularly unwise as the economy improves after a downturn. During the past few years, companies have lopped off employees in the hundreds of thousands for reasons of economic survival. The staff gaps that resulted are […]