Leadership Inspirations – Teachers

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William A. Ward (1921 – 1994) one of America’s most quoted inspirational writers, author of Fountains of Faith

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 40a – An Interview with Frank McIntosh, author of The Relational Leader, 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 40a – An Interview with Frank McIntosh, author of The Relational Leader, part […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 39b – An Interview with Sharon Drew Morgen, author of Dirty Little Secrets, 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 39b – An Interview with Sharon Drew Morgen, author of Dirty Little Secrets, […]

StrategyDriven Decision-Making Best Practice Article

Decision-Making Best Practice 10 – Establish Decision Execution Performance Measures

Managerial decisions often deal with fluid conditions and high risk situations. What might be prudent at the time a decision is made may not be appropriate soon after and could even adversely impact the organization. Therefore, execution of these decisions and the circumstances they seek to address should be actively monitored.

Leadership Inspirations – Credit Where Credit is Due

“Great discoveries and improvement invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.” Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922) Scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator; credited with inventing […]

Sharon Drew Morgen

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 39a – An Interview with Sharon Drew Morgen, author of Dirty Little Secrets, 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 39a – An Interview with Sharon Drew Morgen, author of Dirty Little Secrets, […]

Leadership and Conflict: For Better or for Worse

There is no doubt that leaders of organizations have enormous influence on how often, how intense, and what impact conflict has on their business. Organizations can not avoid conflict: how it occurs is the question. There is constructive and destructive conflict that can occur. Constructive conflict allows the participants to disagree, perhaps argue, without losing […]

StrategyDriven Decision-Making Best Practice Article

Decision-Making Best Practice 9 – Never Let It Go Without Saying

Everyone has a collection of thoughts that are almost automatically acted upon under a given set of circumstances or in response to a specific type of event. Reflective of our beliefs and values, these actions occur naturally as if by reflex. Sometimes these thoughts and behaviors are so shaped by our values we don’t give a ‘second thought’ to acting on them; in fact, we may unconsciously believe others who generally share our convictions will act similarly. We believe ‘it goes without saying’ that these actions will occur.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Taking Decisive Action

History is replete with crisis so much so that their occurrence can be counted upon with some certainty. Crisis themselves create uncertainty but it is the response or lack of response to a crisis that creates the unnecessary uncertainty that often ripples through the marketplace, government agencies, and society. ”A crisis is a terrible thing […]

Leadership Inspirations – Getting Back Up

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius (551 – 479 BCE) Chinese thinker and social philosopher who emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity