StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 15 – Independent Assessors

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 15 examines the benefits of using independent assessors, identifies sources of impartial evaluators, and describes the critical characteristics independent assessors should possess to maximize their effectiveness.

StrategyDriven Standards & Expectations Forum

Standards and expectations establish the how of work performance. These ‘hows’ represent leadership’s translation of the organization’s values to the everyday behaviors members of the workforce should exhibit when performing assigned tasks. (See Figure 1) Subsequently, performance standards form the basis against which individual and group behavioral performance is evaluated. Effective performance standards are broadly […]

Leadership Inspirations – Success, Work, and a Dictionary

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” Donald Kendall co-Founder and former Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 14 – The Devil’s Advocate

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 14 defines what a Devil’s Advocate is, explains how the contrarian helps prevent group think, and describes the critical qualities, responsibilities, and actions of the Devil’s Advocate.

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 […]

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 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.

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 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.