Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Change is hard. Changing your organization is even harder – sometimes, nearly impossible. In doing the research for my new book, I discovered that a study at livescience.com revealed that nearly half of all smokers who have had surgery for early stage lung cancer go back to smoking in just a year! Jolt! : Get the Jump on a World That’s Constantly Changing by Phil Cooke.

Organization 88

Organization Resistance Self-aware Open-book 88

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Excerpt from The Happiness Advantage … The graph below (see Figure 1) may seem boring, but it is the very reason I wake up excited every morning. (Clearly, I live a very exciting life.) It is also the basis of the research underlying this book. This is a scatter-plot diagram. Each dot represents an individual, and each axis represents some variable.

Trends 84

Trends Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing Case Study 84

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage. by Scott Keller and Colin Price. About the Reference. In Beyond Performance , Scott Keller and Colin Price reveal that achieving organizational excellence is a combination of performance – the delivery of financial results – and health – the ability to perform year after year.

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Competitive Advantage Resources Organization Price 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The StrategyDriven family is proud to introduce Jeff Kortes as our newest contributing author! Jeff Kortes is the President of Human Asset Management LLC, a human resources consulting firm which specializes in executive search, retention, engagement and front line leadership training. He is a ‘no nonsense,’ action oriented strategist that helps organizations acquire talent, engage and retain people as well as training the heart of their organizations… their front-line leadership usin

Human Resources 50

Human Resources Asset Management Newsletter Construction 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Executives and manager are rightfully concerned about the costs and potential returns associated with the investments before them. Subsequently, business planners painstakingly research, analyze, and calculate the financials associated with each initiative to be considered and present these and the associated risks to business leaders. To enable comparison, risks are also presented in monetary terms.

Comparison 50

Comparison Newsletter Analysis Article 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Why? Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50