StrategyDriven Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice Article

Predefined Action Thresholds

The value of organizational performance measures isn’t simply that they inform leaders and individual contributors of past and present state performance; rather, the power of performance measures comes from the actions they drive to improve future results. Therefore, organizational performance measures are most effective when they indicate when specific actions should take place. Predefined thresholds accomplish this objective.

Leadership Inspirations – Dealing with Adversity

“Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it, so it goes on flying anyway.” Mary Kay Ash (1918 – 2001) American businesswoman and Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

Capitalism at the Crossroads – Mapping the Terrain

From Obligation to Opportunity Having grown up in western New York in the 1950s and ’60s, I have memories of family vacations spent at destinations like Niagara Falls. Although the Falls themselves were indeed magnificent, equally memorable for a 10-year-old was the soot from nearby factories that accumulated on the porch furniture, requiring that we […]

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 44a – An Interview with David Parmenter, author of Key Performance Indicators, part 1 of 2

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 44a – An Interview with David Parmenter, author of Key Performance Indicators, part […]

Leveraging “Fifth Screen” Affordability To Improve Customer Engagement

It started with the silver screen, over a century ago. And while the advent of TV, personal computers and mobile devices as the second, third and fourth major screen technologies have clearly changed life as we know it, Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) technology – the “fifth screen”, as it’s known – has created amazingly […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 43b – An Interview with Diane Katz, author of Win at Work!, part 2 of 2

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 43b – An Interview with Diane Katz, author of Win at Work!, part […]

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Expanding Uncertainty in the U.S. Financial Sector, part 2

Common sense suggests that individuals and organizations would only seek to borrow or be lent money that they could with reasonable assurance repay. In the wake of the housing market crash of 2008, we learned that financial institutions frequently provided mortgage loans to those they knew could not afford to repay them. Common sense certainly […]

StrategyDriven Diversity and Inclusion Article - Employee Distraction

Diversity and Inclusion – Return on Investment, part 2: Employee Distraction Reduction

All workplace environments have distractions that divert employees’ attention and diminish productivity. Of these, one of the most harmful yet preventable are the disrespectful and demeaning acts committed against employees.

Leadership Inspirations – Getting to the Top

“I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.” Harry S. Truman (1884 – 1972) 33rd President of the United States