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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 59 – An Interview with David Aaker, author of Brand Relevance

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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 59 – An Interview with David Aaker, author of Brand Relevance explores the creation of offerings so different that they create unique categories within which customers perceive n

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

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Conditions for Empowerment. We realize that so far this empowerment process looks fairly easy. Set the goals for everyone, establish their boundaries, and set ‘em all loose. As you might guess, it isn’t quite that simple. But it’s not too far off really. 6 Habits of Highly Successful Managers by John Cioffi. 6 Habits of Highly Successful Managers offers six commonsense habits that create a systematic framework useful to managers, entrepreneurs, and executives, providing them with: Clear hard-hit

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Alternative Selection Best Practice 2 – Evaluate Everything

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All business operations consume a portion of the organization’s limited resources and each presents its own value proposition. However, the strategic planning process often only considers newly presented initiatives and available resources in excess of those consumed by core business processes and previously approved ongoing initiatives. Such practices prevent organization leaders from considering the return on investment of emerging opportunities relative to those established functions; returns

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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

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Everybody loves Bob. He’s a corporate hero. Just last week Bob was watching television after dinner, but he wasn’t really watching. Instead he was thinking about work, as he does most nights. Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning.

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Leadership Inspirations – Resolve

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“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.&#. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790). Founding Father of the United States and. author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. 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.