StrategyDriven Tactical Execution Forum

“Execution is where the rubber meets the road.” StrategyDriven Contributors Strategy without execution is nothing more than wishful thinking pursued with hope. No organization achieves true success unless it is able to effectively execute its initiatives. It is only through execution that leadership’s strategic vision is married to reality. Tactical execution refers to the collection […]

StrategyDriven Leadership Inspirations Quote

Leadership Inspirations – Step Out of Your Box

“If you don’t step out of your box; if you don’t come out of your comfort zone where you look good, feel good, or where you’re liked and admired you won’t progress to live beyond your present potential. Instead, you’ll regress and remain in the reality of your own limitation.” Howard T. Dickens Jr.

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 13 – Introduction to Strategic Analysis

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 13 defines what a strategic analysis is, describes the components of this in-depth examination of the organization and its business environment, and identifies how strategic analysis helps an organization become more strategy driven.

StrategyDriven Portfolio Management Article

Portfolio Management – Managing Shared, Perishable Resources

Portfolio managers direct deployment of assigned resources across the several programs, projects, and processes they oversee in a manner that maximizes the organization’s return on investment. Complicating the portfolio manager’s work is the myriad of differing resource types; resources that are often limited and shared by the portfolio’s many components.

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 12 – One Source of the Truth

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 12, One Source of the Truth, defines what one source of the truth is, identifies the benefits of applying the one source of the truth principle, and describes the guiding principles to put one source of the truth into practice.

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 11 – Diverse Indicators

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 11 defines what diverse indicators are, identifies the benefits of using diverse indicators to assess performance, highlights the situations during which diverse indicators are needed, and describes the guiding principles to create diverse indicators.

StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability Article

Organizational Accountability – Fundamental Accountability Drivers

As previously stated, we believe organizations act in accordance with the shared values of the people that comprise them. What an organization values is represented by the rewards sought in return for its products and services, the organizationally defined acceptable methods of reward pursuit, and the manner in which benefits realized are parsed to the organization’s members. Therefore, organizational accountability, the timely and consequential pursuit of mission goals, is driven by the ability of the organization to quantifiably measure earned rewards and the culturally determined method of assessing and recognizing employee performance.

StrategyDriven Podcast Series

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 10 – Core Performance Measures

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 10 defines what core performance measures are, identifies the benefits of employing a performance measurement lattice, and describes the guiding principles used to create an organizationally aligning measurement system.

StrategyDriven Decision-Making Warning Flag Article

Decision-Making Warning Flag 1 – Logic Fallacies Introduction

Complex decisions require executives and managers to synthesize a multitude of variables into meaningful information from which they must choose a course of action. Some executives and managers combine clarity of thought and depth of knowledge and experience with a true understanding of the organization’s goals to identify and select a well founded decision option. Others find their perspective clouded by personal bias, self interest, misinformation, inexperience, and/or a lack of decision-making fundamentals knowledge; falling prey to logic fallacies, the misapplication of logic during problem solving. While a lack of knowledge and/or experience with problem solving may contribute to logic errors, they are typically the product of decision-makers’ underlying desires.

StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability Article

Organizational Accountability – Performance = Results + Behaviors

StrategyDriven Organizational Accountability ArticleOrganizational accountability is built on the premise that individuals are equitably rewarded based on their contribution to the accomplishment of the organization's goals consistent with its ethical values. Performance, therefore, becomes more than just 'making the numbers.'


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