StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading

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 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading […]

Management Would be Easy if You Didn’t Have to Deal with People, part 2 of 3

Goals and Boundaries We’re going to use some diagrams to show you how this all works. In all of the diagrams, we use a target as a symbol for the goals of the position and an ‘X’ as a symbol for the starting place of the person in that position (they are about to begin […]

Recommended Resource – Reviving Work Ethic

Reviving Work Ethic: A Leader’s Guide to Ending Entitlement and Restoring Pride in the Emerging Workforce by Eric Chester About the Reference Reviving Work Ethic by Eric Chester provides actionable methods organization leaders can employ to instill within their young workers the strong work ethic foundational to America’s market success. He begins by categorizing young […]

Leadership Inspirations – Accuracy

“It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.” Carveth Read (1848 – 1931) 19th and 20th century British philosopher and logician Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at the University College London

Management Would be Easy if You Didn’t Have to Deal with People, part 1 of 3

We frequently remind managers, as well as aspiring managers, that management is a new career. As surely as teaching is different from accounting, management is different than the role that a person held as an employee or as a start-up entrepreneur. Many new managers, however, find themselves overwhelmed. Instead of focusing on the day-to-day job […]

Leadership Inspirations – The Cost of Doing Nothing

“There are costs and risks to a program of action but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) 35th President of the United States

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 57 – An Interview with Robert Simons, author of Seven Strategy Questions

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 57 – An Interview with Robert Simons, author of Seven Strategy Questions explores […]

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Business Complexity has Grown Significantly Since the Financial Crisis

New research confirms the financial crisis has significantly exacerbated business complexity. A recently released survey reveals that 86 percent of firms face increasing complexity in their operating environment or organizational structure over the past three years. In the survey for the report titled, The Complexity Challenge: How businesses are bearing up, only 22 percent of […]

Leadership Inspirations – The Right Mental Attitude

“Nothing can stop someone with the right mental attitude from achieving their goal. Nothing on earth can help a person with the wrong mental attitude.” Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America (1801 – 1809)