Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2011

As social media and personal email continue to be many individual’s primary forms of communications, it becomes harder to keep them focused at the workplace. An increase in usage of media-rich sites can place a considerable strain on limited bandwidth, which can hurt the performance of critical business tasks. The challenge is establishing a proper workplace balance that allows some personal internet usage without a related drag on business efficiency.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

Inspire. A pure fact of transformational leadership is that you can accomplish only a small portion of the requisite forward movement on your own. Therefore, if you are to transform a company you must inspire others to follow you. What are the qualities of a leader that inspire others and impel them to follow? Front Runners – Lap Your Competition With 10 Game-Changing Strategies For Total Business Transformation by Mahesh Rao.

Energy 66

Energy Follow-up Industry Learning-by-Doing 66

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Five centuries ago, conditions in Europe were perilous for many. Some muddled through bleak circumstances and took what came. Others had the imagination to see that a brighter future might await them in the New World. Leaders emerged whose navigational equipment, skills, and personal qualities gave others the courage to follow them across a sea of unknowns in search of a more promising place.

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Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2011

Why is it that the American economic recovery is moving so slowly and new job creation is low? PBS NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman takes a critical look at whether America is experiencing an innovation lull, as George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen claims in his new book, The Great Stagnation : How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will(Eventually) Feel Better.

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Technology Newsletter Innovation Efficiency 56

Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2011

All business leaders are human and some get overly enamored with and excited about a particular business opportunity. These business leaders then direct either a business case or project plan to be developed which is immediately funded; circumventing the organization’s business planning process. In these cases, the initiative’s ability to meet the organization’s business objectives and goals remains uncertain and consideration of competing opportunities is forfeit.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 27, 2011

Results start with a strong strategic principle – a shared objective about what the organization wants to accomplish. The strategic principle guides the company’s allocation of scarce resources – money, time, and talent. The strategic principle doesn’t merely aggregate a collection of objectives. Landing in the Executive Chair : How to Excel in the Hot Seat by Linda Henman.

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Competitive Advantage How To Short-term Execution 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2011

“I think the Heartland is a nice place to raise children. People are nice, but they’re dumb, overweight and gullible. They wear tacky clothing and jewelry. They’re racist, unworldly and dumb.”. Marketing executive in New York City. If you are reading this column, you most likely play a role in building brands. You may even share the views of the marketing executive that I quoted above.

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