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Management vs. Leadership Mindset: What Millennial Employees Need to Know As They Enter Leadership Roles
The confusion between the role of a manager and a leader has tripped up more than one business professional and cost many companies their very existence. Is ‘the person in charge’ automatically a leader? If you’re managing other people, are you...
Leadership Inspirations – Growing Others
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch respected business leader and former Chairman and CEO of General Electric (1981 – 2001) &nbs...
The Amazing Hoopla Team That Will Change Your Work Life Forever!
Admit it. The first time you heard the phrase “Hoopla Team®” – maybe last week, or last month, or ten seconds ago, in that headline – you rolled your eyes. Oh yes you did. But if you have heard it before, you probably also ...
The Proven Formula for: Winning the Execution Game
Execution is everything. Plan all you want, dream all you can, then turn that key or you’ve accomplished nothing. Execution is what separates those who merely have lofty ideas from those who end up winning the game. It’s about taking st...
Work Stinks? Get Yourself Back Into that First Work-Day Feeling
Remember your very first day on the job? Your shoes had a shine like the tiles on the Space Shuttle and the crease in your slacks could have diced celery. The air was somehow fresher, the birds chirpier. You had been hired. You’d been given...
Leadership Inspirations – What Leaders Do
“Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.” John Kotter...
New Century Leaders
What kind of new world leaders should we expect? Here is one magnifying and surprising solution. I believe we need to teach future business leaders that in our carbon and capital constrained world it is now mission critical to refine all the tools o...
A Better Brand of Leadership
Is leadership defined solely by results? Most of the flood of leader literature makes that assumption. Leaders get things done. They win wars, championships, fortune, fame. They cure sick teams, organizations, whole countries. Not by themselves, of c...
Self Assessment Program Best Practice 7 - Be Prepared from the Start
Self assessments aggregate huge amounts of data in order to provide a very few high value insights. (See Figure 1: Data Refinement and Consolidation Model below) As an assessment progresses, evaluators often feel increasingly overwhelmed by the vol...
Management Observation Program Best Practice 6 - Observation Announcement Timing
Philosophically speaking, no one, including managers, should ever be afraid to have ‘the boss’ know or observe what he or she is doing. Being human, we naturally feel self imposed pressure to perform well especially when we are being wat...
StrategyDriven Podcasts Receive Top Honors in October
The StrategyDriven Team would like to thank you, our listeners, for helping us achieve the third place ranking for the StrategyDriven Podcast and the fourth place ranking for the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation podcast from among the over 2600...
StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 2 - Profile of the Effective Leader
StrategyDriven Leadership Conversations focus on the values and behaviors characteristic of highly effective leaders. Complimenting the StrategyDriven Management & Leadership articles, these conversations examine the real world challenges manager...
StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 23 - An Interview with Susan Scott, author of Fierce Leadership
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...
Seven Secrets to Employee Engagement (Hint: It’s NOT about the Benjamins)
If you’ve seen the movie Jerry Maguire, you’ll remember the scene where Tom Cruise asks Cuba Gooding, Jr., “What can I do for you?” Gooding says, “Show me the money.” Many employers think that’s the key to em...
StrategyDriven Podcasts Receive Top Honors in September
The StrategyDriven Team would like to thank you, our listeners, for helping us achieve the third place ranking for the StrategyDriven Podcast and the fourth place ranking for the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation podcast from among the over 2600...
Whacked-Out Workplaces: How Dysfunctional is Yours?
We’ve all been there. You walk into a bank, restaurant or store and suddenly feel it, that vague sensation that all is not well. It drips from the ceilings and sits in puddles on the floor. The employees are lost in thought, unable to decide wh...
StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 20b - An Interview with Gary Cohen, author of Just Ask Leadership, 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...
Management Observation Program Best Practice 5 - Observation Training, Grading, and Quality Assessments
Management observations profoundly influence the behaviors of those observed. Done well, this tool positively reinforces desired behaviors. Performed poorly, this tool will undermine the management team’s credibility and fosters cynicism towards ...
StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 20a - An Interview with Gary Cohen, author of Just Ask Leadership, 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...
Management and Leadership Warning Flag 1 - Working Managers
Regardless of the organization, all managers share common job functions and responsibilities including defining and reinforcing performance standards, establishing organizational priorities, and authorizing and coordinating personnel activities and r...
Leadership Inspirations - Commitment
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it only when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses.” Ken Blanchard management expert and au...
Succession and Succession Planning Introduction
Advancement, transfer, retirement, resignation, and termination are all causes of position vacancies. Regardless of the reason for or timing of a position opening, the organization must continue to function through the subsequent transition. Organi...
Leadership Inspirations - Fortune Favors the Prepared
“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.” Harriet Martineau English writer and philosopher “Every great man was o...
StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 19 - An Interview with Arlene Johnson, author of Success Mapping
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...
Succession and Succession Planning Best Practice 1 - Turnover Checklists
Every position in any company will necessarily be different than even the same position within any other organization. These differences stem from the unique organizational personnel, policies, culture, and marketplace positioning and environment. To...
Leadership Inspirations - Solving Problems
Albert Einstein is arguably one of the greatest problem solvers of all time. Whether examining a physical phenomenon or business challenge his thoughts on problem solving are timelessly applicable. Below are some of these philosophies: “We ca...
Self Assessment Program Best Practice 6 - Three Whys Deep
Executives, managers, and individual contributors familiar with the day-to-day workings of their organizations undoubtedly know or have contrived the reason for ‘why things are the way they are.’ Beyond this understanding, sometimes at an uncons...
StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 1 - An Introduction to Leadership Effectiveness
StrategyDriven Leadership Conversations focus on the values and behaviors characteristic of highly effective leaders. Complimenting the StrategyDriven Management & Leadership articles, these conversations examine the real world challenges manage...
Recommended Resources - An Interview with Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky, authors of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the W...
Problem-Solving Success Tip: Measure
Measure. The first key question to answer in starting a problem-solving project is, “How will you know when the problem is solved?” Answer this question in measurable terms before you start trying to solve the problem. As you begin defining your...
