Top Leadership Digital Innovation Management Content for April, 2011

The Difference Between Strategy and Tactics

Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

For many organizations, strategy (the " why we're going to do what we're doing") is one of those mysterious, behind-closed-doors activities conducted annually by a small group of senior leaders. It's often viewed as a superior mental and managerial activity. In contrast, tactics (the " how we're going to do what we're supposed to do" - or the execution element) is typically thought of as the grunt work, relegated to and performed by the rest of the organization.

Tactics

Tactics Strategy Long-term Execution

Drucker's Five Most Important Questions You Can Ask

Six Disciplines

APRIL 6, 2011

In his book The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization, Peter Drucker, one of the leading management practitioners of our time, offers a tool for self-assessment and transformation. Answering these five questions will fundamentally change the way you work, helping you lead your organization to an exceptional level of performance.

Drucker

Drucker Tools Planning Organization

Twelve Rules for Self-Leadership

Six Disciplines

APRIL 19, 2011

Rosa Say , has an excellent post " Twelve Rules for Self-Leadership. ". Her wisdom based on years of experience and coaching result in this great advice for self-leadership: Set goals for your life; not just for your job. What we think of as “meaning of life” goals affect your lifestyle outside of work too, and you get whole-life context, not just work-life, each feeding off the other.

Leadership

Leadership Ethics Learning-by-Doing Mentor

The Ultimate Strategy Execution Formula

Six Disciplines

APRIL 8, 2011

Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions. Explanation: AWFUL IDEA = -1. WEAK IDEA = 1. SO-SO IDEA = 5. GOOD IDEA = 10. GREAT IDEA = 15. BRILLIANT IDEA = 20. NO EXECUTION = $1. WEAK EXECUTION = $1000. SO-SO- EXECUTION = $10,000. GOOD EXECUTION = $100,000. GREAT EXECUTION = $1,000,000. BRILLIANT EXECUTION = $10,000,000.

Execution

Execution Strategy Organization Succession

Seven Steps To Effective Change in 2011

Six Disciplines

APRIL 28, 2011

Are you satisfied with the way your business is performing today? How about next year? Specifically, what are you doing to make the rest of 2011 a banner year for continual business improvement? What are you going to do differently ? What are you going to do - to change? The challenge is how to change, not if. Here are seven steps for effective change: Create a commitment.

Commitment

Commitment Process Company Environment

The Top 10 Reasons Performance Measurement Matters

Six Disciplines

APRIL 14, 2011

The Top 10 Reasons why performance measurement matters: Measurement directs behavior. Most employees consciously or unconsciously operate on the following assumption: “tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.” Measurement makes performance visible. If it’s not being measured, it simply can’t be managed.

Deming

Deming Quality System Objective

The Secret To Consistently Executing Strategy Is

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

there IS no secret. Let’s face it. If there was a secret or a shortcut to achieving lasting business excellence -- we'd all be doing it. Sure, there are tons of great business improvement ideas out there - take your pick: "Good to Great ", "Covey's 7 Habits", "E-Myth", "Built To Last". and hundreds more come out each year of others by best-selling business authors.

Execution

Execution Strategy Covey Software

Building Company-Wide Accountability

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

Building company-wide accountability is a key element to making a business sustainable over a long period of time. Not surprisingly, all high-performing organizations are moving toward more empowerment, enlightenment -- and creating organizational accountability. So what is accountability? To some, it’s something you make people do, as in “making people accountable.

Company

Company Micromanagement Goal Definition

Managers Are The Problem, Not The Inspiration - And Eight Ways To Fix It

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

A while back, Harvard's Working Knowledge published the classic " Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation. ". Their premise? "Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration.". Here are eight best-practices to fire up the troops. Instill an inspiring purpose. A critical condition for employee enthusiasm is a clear, credible, and inspiring organizational purpose: in effect, a "reason for being" that translates fo

Management

Management Teamwork Motivation Advice

What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

What makes Six Disciplines for Excellence different from other business improvement books? “Six Disciplines for Excellence is what the E-Myth Revisited wants to be when it grows up.” (David Rothacker, Rothacker Reviews). ”We interrupt our coverage of meaningless business books to review a book that made the cut: Six Disciplines for Excellence by Gary Harpst.

CTO

CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton

How To Read Six Disciplines for Excellence

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

How should you read Six Disciplines for Excellence ? “Read this book with a highlighter and/or a legal pad and pen nearby. You’ll need them.” (Bob Schuneman, Small Biz Matters). “But don’t just buy it, read it and put it on the shelf -- implement the concepts into your business.” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business).

How To

How To CEO Definition Energy

Global Precision Parts Joins The Six Disciplines Client Community

Six Disciplines

APRIL 21, 2011

Global Precision Parts (GPP) was established in 2006 as a combination of 3 manufacturing companies located in Ottoville and East Liberty, Ohio and Wabash, Indiana. The three facilities represent an important alliance that allows their customers to enjoy synergy, flexibility and volume capacity that only a multi-site company can offer. GPP supports their customer needs by offering prototyping, short-run and high-volume requirements.

GPP

GPP Globalization Offshoring Quality

Excellence Is An Enduring Pursuit - It Requires An Enduring Approach

Six Disciplines

APRIL 18, 2011

Is excellence important to you? Do you want it to be? Although leaders vary in their definitions of excellence, and how best to achieve it, most agree that excellence is a never-ending pursuit and that whatever their challenges and opportunities are today, they will be different tomorrow. Leaders often face these ten challenges: Communication —people lack clarity and direction, limiting innovation.

Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching Risk Management Software Definition

IndustryWeek Reviews Six Disciplines Execution Revolution

Six Disciplines

APRIL 18, 2011

IndustryWeek has published a review summary of "Six Disciplines Execution Revolution" by CEO Gary Harpst. "What's needed, says author Gary Harpst, is not only the discipline to learn how to develop a good plan, but more importantly the proper use of technology in execution. ". Read the entire review here.

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Review Execution CEO Technology

AmeriStride - Offering Six Disciplines Business Coaching in Tennessee

Six Disciplines

APRIL 14, 2011

Tennessee-based Firm Sees Growth through Strategy Execution Coaching Program. Tennessee-based AmeriStride is a certified partner of the nationwide network of business coaching organizations that offer the Six Disciplines® strategy execution program to its clients. Six Disciplines is unique in the burgeoning industry of business coaching because of its completeness, which involves the synergy of a repeatable business-building methodology, accountability coaching, an execution software system,

Software

Software Executive Coaching Consultative Execution

Why Is Strategy Execution So Hard? The Odds Are Against Us

Six Disciplines

APRIL 13, 2011

Effective execution of strategy seems to be an elusive goal. As Fortune Magazine noted in 1982, "Less than 10% of strategies effectively formulated are effectively executed.". After two decades of the application of even the most modern and innovative business principles, the problem remains. Fortune again noted in 1999, "In the majority of cases - we estimate 70% - the real problem isn't bad strategy -- it's bad execution.".

Norton

Norton Kaplan Execution Strategy

How Excellence Degrades In Organizations

Six Disciplines

APRIL 13, 2011

Gary Hamel is a leading management author and consultant, whose books include Leading the Revolution, Competing for the Future, and The Future of Management. In his WSJ blog post GM: Why Good Companies Go Bad Hamel asserts: "How does this happen? How do yesterday’s icons become today’s also-rans? How does excellence degrade? What are the causes of corporate dysphoria?

Hamel

Hamel Organization Reference Efficiency

The Value Of Continuous Business Coaching

Six Disciplines

APRIL 12, 2011

Research bolsters our belief in the value of business coaching. Talent management analysts Bersin & Associates discovered the important role coaching plays in a survey of 750 organizations and 55 executives. Bersin wanted to get a feel for the top business problems today, challenges related to talent in our companies, and processes used to recruit, retain and develop employees.

Survey

Survey Talent Management Execution Process

Pareto Consulting Offers Six Disciplines Business Coaching in Pittsburgh

Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

Pittsburgh-based Firm Sees Growth through Strategy Execution Coaching Program. Pittsburgh-based Pareto Consulting is a certified partner of a nationwide network of business coaching organizations that offer the Six Disciplines® strategy execution coaching program to its clients. Six Disciplines is unique in the burgeoning industry of business coaching because of its completeness, which involves the synergy of a repeatable business-building methodology, accountability coaching, an execution s

Consultative

Consultative Executive Coaching Talent Management Software

The Knowing vs Doing Gap And The Need for Change

Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

One of the most persistent challenges we face (in business, and in our personal lives) is to narrow the gap between knowing what needs to be done, and actually doing what needs to be done - consistently. In fact, as business leaders, we collectively know quite a bit about what needs to be done. We've read the books, taken seminars, and listened to the advice of management gurus.

Seminar

Seminar Resistance Definition Advice

The ROI of Business Coaching

Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

Executive coaching has become as accepted (in Fortune 1000 businesses) as sports coaching is on the athletic field. What is the ROI of executive coaching? Manchester Inc. reported that a survey of executives from large (mostly FORTUNE 1000) companies found that those who had participated in a coaching program characterized the ROI to be in the order of 6:1.

ROI

ROI Executive Coaching Core Competence Sports

Execution And The Importance Of The Middle Manager

Six Disciplines

APRIL 8, 2011

According to Thomas Colligan, vice dean of Wharton's Executive Education: "Many companies are seeing significant turnover in middle management ranks, and with significant turnover, they don't have the ability to execute strategy. Top management can spend all their time creating strategy, but without someone there to implement it, where are you at the end of the day?".

Middle Management

Middle Management Execution Management Education

What High-Performing Companies Track

Six Disciplines

APRIL 8, 2011

Want to be a high-performing company? Then track your talent. A study on HR metrics by i4cp shows that higher-performing companies are more apt to measure talent-related metrics than lower performers. Common talent-related metrics include movement within the organization, quality of hires, quality of promotions and the cost of training/development. Key findings: 93% of higher performers measure employee engagement, compared with 79% of lower performers.

Company

Company Competitive Advantage Metrics Compliance

Balanced Scorecard - The Next Big Thing?

Six Disciplines

APRIL 4, 2011

Many corporate managers have been introduced to a corporate management system called the Balanced Scorecard. Developed at the Harvard Business School by David Norton and Robert Kaplan in the early 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) represents the newest and most prolific performance measurement system since Total Quality Management (TQM) and Management by Objectives (MBO).

Balanced Scorecard

Balanced Scorecard MBO TQM Norton

Majority Of Companies Still Not Communicating Strategy Internally

Six Disciplines

APRIL 5, 2011

Companies today are not effectively executing against strategy and the business leaders know it, with 80 percent recognizing that they are "not doing their best" to communicate strategy through the organization, let alone execute against it, according to new 2010 research commissioned by SuccessFactors, Inc. and Accenture. According to the study, business leaders who recognize potential organizational shortcomings and bridge this strategy and execution gap will emerge as the winners in the next

Strategy

Strategy Company System Execution

April Edition of Strategy Execution Newsletter - Now Available

Six Disciplines

APRIL 5, 2011

The April 2011 edition of the Six Disciplines Strategy Execution newsletter - with a focus on using software to help with strategy execution, is now available. Go here to subscribe to the Strategy Execution newsletter.

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Newsletter Execution Strategy Software

Leadership Digital

April, 2011

Six Disciplines

The Difference Between Strategy and Tactics

Drucker's Five Most Important Questions You Can Ask

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Twelve Rules for Self-Leadership

The Ultimate Strategy Execution Formula

Seven Steps To Effective Change in 2011

The Top 10 Reasons Performance Measurement Matters

The Secret To Consistently Executing Strategy Is

Building Company-Wide Accountability

Managers Are The Problem, Not The Inspiration - And Eight Ways To Fix It

What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

How To Read Six Disciplines for Excellence

Global Precision Parts Joins The Six Disciplines Client Community

Excellence Is An Enduring Pursuit - It Requires An Enduring Approach

IndustryWeek Reviews Six Disciplines Execution Revolution

AmeriStride - Offering Six Disciplines Business Coaching in Tennessee

Why Is Strategy Execution So Hard? The Odds Are Against Us

How Excellence Degrades In Organizations

The Value Of Continuous Business Coaching

Pareto Consulting Offers Six Disciplines Business Coaching in Pittsburgh

The Knowing vs Doing Gap And The Need for Change

The ROI of Business Coaching

Execution And The Importance Of The Middle Manager

What High-Performing Companies Track

Balanced Scorecard - The Next Big Thing?

Majority Of Companies Still Not Communicating Strategy Internally

April Edition of Strategy Execution Newsletter - Now Available

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