Leadership Inspirations – The Will to Prepare

“The will to succeed is important, but I’ll tell you what’s more important – it’s the will to prepare.” Bobby Knight nicknamed The General, his teams won 902 NCAA Division I men’s college basketball games – more than any other head coach; his Indiana Hoosiers won three NCAA championships, one National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship, […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 52b – An Interview with Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill, co-authors of Surviving the Baby Boomer Exodus, part 2 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 52b – An Interview with Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill, co-authors of Surviving […]

Selfless Leadership: Putting Our Cause First

In the fourth couplet of his poem ‘If-,’ Rudyard Kipling wrote:   Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;   Kipling is telling us that as leaders, we must be willing to put our cause or beliefs ahead of our personal gain. He is reminding […]

Leadership Inspirations – Communications Excellence

“To improve communications, work not on the utterer, but the recipient.” Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) ‘Father of Modern Management’ and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 52a – An Interview with Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill, co-authors of Surviving the Baby Boomer Exodus, 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 52a – An Interview with Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill, co-authors of Surviving […]

Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly Resonates

In today’s information-packed business world, it is easy to communicate, but it isn’t always easy to be heard. Here’s some advice on how to create messages that people really remember. Today we are overwhelmed with messages. Some are just 140 characters long. Others are much longer, but they are constantly bombarding us – trying to […]

Executive Vision – Building a Global Leadership Brand: Technology

Executive Vision is a five part series created by CNBC and sponsored by Credit Suisse. Within each episode, Melissa Francis, Simon Hobbs, and a group of distinguished guests discuss what it takes to be a visionary leader; guiding their companies to success within the rapidly changing global marketplace. Distinguished Guests Dr. Jean Botti, Chief Technical […]

Leadership Inspirations – Practice Makes Perfect

“In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.” Roger Staubach United States Naval Academy graduate, Heisman Trophy winner and legendary Hall of Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys (1969 – 1979)

Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 3

This series of articles explores the connection between relational leadership and employee retention. I discussed creating a ‘learning – thinking’ organization in the first article and a trusting organization in the following two. This final article examines creating a respected organization. Respected organizations are often marked by the depth of esteem in which the community […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 51 – An Interview with Priscilla Nelson and Ed Cohen, co-authors of Riding the Tiger

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 51 – An Interview with Priscilla Nelson and Ed Cohen, co-authors of Riding […]