StrategyDriven Podcast

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 36 – An Interview with Robert Wysocki, author of Adaptive Project Framework

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 36 – An Interview with Robert Wysocki, author of Adaptive Project Framework explores […]

The Great Marketing Circus – PR’s magic, revealed!

The marketing arena can easily be compared to a three-ring circus. A few clowns, a few death-defying leaps and the ring leader is expected to single-handedly bring it all together. Of course, we can’t forget the one person everyone expects to see – the great magician: shrouded in mystery, quite dramatic and never without ability […]

StrategyDriven Business Performance Assessment Program Warning Flag Article

Business Performance Assessment Program Warning Flag 2 – Crediting Good Intentions

Communicating assessment conclusions can be a difficult task, particularly in the case of improvement opportunities being presented to those directly managing or performing the function. Delivering the message is all the more difficult if those receiving it are organizationally senior to the self assessment lead or are influential favorites of the organization’s leaders. In these cases, business performance assessment leaders seeking a tactful way of communicating the ‘bad news’ often fall into the trap of crediting the good intentions and/or self identification of the issue by those responsible in order to put a positive spin on an otherwise negative message. Doing so, however, avoids the real issues at hand and can rob the organization of the opportunity to realize substantive performance improvements.

Micah Solomon

Seven Secrets of Driving Customer Loyalty – and Profits

In these rough and recessionary times, it’s important to escape the commodity pricing wars and to find ways to strengthen the marketing backbone of your company. The most reliable and affordable way to achieve both these goals is by building a strong personal bond with your customers. Loyal customers see you as more valuable than […]

Leadership Inspirations – Continual Fear

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia

The New Thinking on KPIs, part 3 of 4

The four types of performance measures I have come to the conclusion that there are four types of performance measures, as shown in Figure 3. This conclusion has come from: the research I have conducted; workshop feedback across diverse industries; and as a by-product of writing my book “Key Performance Indicators – developing, implementing and […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 35 – An Interview with Robert Kolb, co-author of Corporate Boards

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 35 – An Interview with Robert Kolb, co-author of Corporate Boards explores the […]

StrategyDriven Change Management Forum

StrategyDriven Change Management Forum

“The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 18 months.” Gordon Moore co-Founder , Intel Originally published in Electronics Magazine, April 19, 1965 When Gordon Moore made this famous comment, there were approximately 60 devices on an Intel chip. Four decades later, Intel placed 1.7 billion transistors on its Itanium chip; proving […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Creating Event Certainty, part 2 of 3

Oil from the ill-fated British Petroleum (BP) leased Horizon Deepwater rig continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico – the massive oil slick already contaminating the coastline of several Gulf States, injuring wildlife, and threatening to evolve into an unprecedented ecological disaster. In the over forty days since the leak first began, both BP […]

Leadership Inspirations – Influencing Others

“The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions.” John Hancock(1737 – 1793) Founding Father of the United States of America, signer of the Declaration of Independence, President of the Second Continental Congress, and first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts