Leadership Inspirations – Blowing Your Own Horn

“Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.” Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) Oklahoma’s Favorite Son, Cherokee cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 30a – An Interview with Lynne Lancaster and David Stillman, authors of The M-Factor, 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 30a – An Interview with Lynne Lancaster and David Stillman, authors of The […]

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – You Don’t Get Something for Nothing

Some would argue that with President Obama’s signing of health care legislation into law a great deal of uncertainty was eliminated from the marketplace. While the uncertainty associated with whether or not health care legislation would become law has been resolved, the new healthcare entitlement itself represents an injection of new uncertainty into the market. […]

Leadership Inspirations – Team Commitment

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi (1913 – 1970) Green Bay Packers Head Coach from 1959 to 1967, winning five league championships during these nine years Following his death in September 1970, the NFL’s ‘World Championship […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 30 – The Cost of Not Engaging Employees

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. Episode 30 – The Cost of Not Engaging Employees explores the cost of not engaging […]

StrategyDriven Decision-Making Warning Flag Article

Decision-Making Warning Flag 1c – ad hominem: Personal, Not Issue Attacks

Ad hominem arguments are bias-based logic fallacies made to support business decisions every day.

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Leadership Inspirations – Face the Opposition

“This week, stand toe-to-toe and eye-to-eye with the opposition to your success and say, ‘You won’t stop me. My destiny is victory and my birthname, winner. Bring it!’” Howard T. Dickens Jr.

To PR or not to PR: PR is not a verb!

This is not an article debating the changing landscape of the public relations or advertising industry, or preaching best practice advice, but rather an examination of the two simple letters that encompass all that we (as communications professionals) do: PR. As a public relations professional, I respect that there are some commonplace misconceptions about what […]

StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability Best Practice Article

Organizational Accountability Best Practice 2 – Data Transparency

Organizations live and die by the decisions of executives and managers and the actions of employees. Therefore, individuals must be held accountable for their work that both helps and hinders goal achievement if the organization expects to thrive. This accountability can only happen, however, if the decisions/actions and associated results are visible. Data transparency helps create this visibility.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Self Inflicted Uncertainty

On February 2, Dow Jones reported the Obama Administration’s decision not to expand the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve as had been provisioned under the Energy Act of 20051. Energy Secretary Steven Chu indicated the basis for the decision was that the current reserve of 727 million barrels of crude oil met international standards. (The International […]