Top Leadership Digital Ethics Marketing Content for July, 2011

Is Email Taking Over Your Life? 7 ways to get your life back

Strategy Driven

JULY 4, 2011

During a recent film shoot in Tucson, Arizona for a new Internet project, I woke up at 4am unable to sleep. So as millions do when our sleep is interrupted, I got up and started wading through my cluttered email inbox. Email consumes enormous amounts of time (some studies indicate that 40% of a typical employee’s day is spent sending and receiving email).

Film

Film Guidelines Learning-by-Doing Media

Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

ROIC

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey

The Big Picture of Business – Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques: Part II

Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2011

The successful professional person takes the time and appropriates the resources to develop a Body of Work, rather than just hold jobs. Business is approached as a lifetime track record of accomplishments. This sophisticated and vital category includes: The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree.

Learning-by-Doing

Learning-by-Doing Career Strategic Planning Mentor

Are You a Good Fit for Potential Employers?

Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2011

Determining if you are a good fit for an employer and vice-versa is not always as hard as it might seem. As I describe in my book Career Mapping : Charting Your Course in the New World of Work , you first need to have decided that you want to work in the industry in which the company does business. Career Mapping : Charting Your Course in the New World of Work by Ginny Clarke.

Career

Career Industry Diversity Long-term

The Big Picture of Business – Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques: Part I

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. This holds true for any company, institution and for any person. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree.

Long-term

Long-term Benchmarking Quality Process

Complimentary Resource – 7 Steps to Building Your Keyword List

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2011

7 Steps to Building Your Keyword List. by Optify, Inc. In this white paper Optify lists 7 basic, but essential steps for building your keyword list as the stepping stone for a successful SEO plan. Search engine optimization, or SEO, begins with creating a keyword list of phrase terms that people are actually using to search for your product or service.

Resources

Resources White Paper Newsletter Audience

Fire the Slugs! And Other Great, No-Nonsense Ways to Retain Your Best People

Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

There isn’t an organization anywhere that doesn’t have a problem with some type of personnel turnover problems. Depending on the study you look at, the impact of turnover ranges from three months of salary for a low level employee who leaves to as high as 400 percent of the annual salary of an upper-level person who leaves. No Nonsense Retention : Painless Strategies To Retain Your Best People by Jeff Kortes.

Open-book

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Training Micromanagement

A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2011

In order for any change to occur – whether it’s a decision to purchase a product, or an implementation to add new technology – whatever touches the ultimate solution must buy-in to the change. Often our focus is on getting the end-result we think we want. We forget that without buy-in from the necessary people and policies that maintain the status quo, we face the high cost of the resistance emanating from pushing change into a system that believes that it’s fine, thanks.

Case Study

Case Study Technology Resistance Project

Human Performance Warning Flag 1 – Peer Checking Everything

Strategy Driven

JULY 26, 2011

Performing operational tasks is no different than administrative work or project activities – elevate all tasks to a level of equal importance and they all become unimportant. As previously defined in StrategyDriven Human Performance Management Best Practice 2 – Peer Checking , activities that should be peer checked are those irreversible actions presenting a severe adverse consequence if an error is made.

Newsletter

Newsletter Article Content Operations

Leadership Inspirations – Well Done

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2011

“Well done is so much better than well said.&#. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790). Founding Father of the United States of America. You just finished reading Leadership Inspirations - Well Done ! Consider leaving a comment! If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

Leadership

Leadership Newsletter Content Article

Recruitment Strategy

Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2011

Many companies do not understand how to approach developing a recruitment strategy. The Human Resource Department is pulled in many directions and formal recruitment strategy development can be pushed back until it’s too late. Then the decision is made to ‘do the same thing we did last year.’ This is a very costly way of recruiting because recruitment is a very fluid dynamic.

Strategy

Strategy Budgeting Learning-by-Doing Wilde

Human Performance Management Best Practice 2 – Peer Checking

Strategy Driven

JULY 19, 2011

Even the most well-intentioned and dedicated humans are fallible. Therefore, the challenge becomes one of minimizing human error. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates.

Management

Management Newsletter Article Content

Inside Job – Unveiling Economists’ Ties to the Financial Sector

Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2011

America and the world are still recovering from the global economic crisis of 2008. And with unemployment rates above 9 percent, many wonder if the market turmoil will ever end. PBS NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman talks to Charles Ferguson, director of Academy Award winning documentary, Inside Job , a film that raises red flags about the world of finance.

Film

Film Conflict of Interest Crisis Newsletter

Human Performance Management Best Practice 1b – Verbalized Self Checking

Strategy Driven

JULY 12, 2011

Even the most well-intentioned and dedicated humans are fallible. Therefore, the challenge becomes one of minimizing human error. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates.

Management

Management Newsletter Article Content

Communications – Introduction

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2011

Information flow is the lifeblood of every organization, whether passing verbally, electronically, or via hard copy. The clarity, accuracy, and conciseness of information passed as well as the quality of understanding by the intended receiver(s) determine, in part, the effectiveness of transference by the overall communications network. The fluidity of the system, formal and informal, composed of people, applications, hardware, and paper, serves as the remaining factor in the organization’

Content

Content Guidelines Tips Article

Human Performance Management Best Practice 1a – Demonstrative Self Checking

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2011

Even the most well-intentioned and dedicated humans are fallible. Therefore, the challenge becomes one of minimizing human error. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 other StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates.

Management

Management Newsletter Article Content

Leadership Digital

July, 2011

Strategy Driven

Is Email Taking Over Your Life? 7 ways to get your life back

Performance Measurement

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The Big Picture of Business – Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques: Part II

Are You a Good Fit for Potential Employers?

The Big Picture of Business – Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques: Part I

Complimentary Resource – 7 Steps to Building Your Keyword List

Fire the Slugs! And Other Great, No-Nonsense Ways to Retain Your Best People

A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants

Human Performance Warning Flag 1 – Peer Checking Everything

Leadership Inspirations – Well Done

Recruitment Strategy

Human Performance Management Best Practice 2 – Peer Checking

Inside Job – Unveiling Economists’ Ties to the Financial Sector

Human Performance Management Best Practice 1b – Verbalized Self Checking

Communications – Introduction

Human Performance Management Best Practice 1a – Demonstrative Self Checking

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