Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Art says, “There’s a lot of happy talk in books, on blogs and in articles about leaders and leading. Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center provided How to Create a Dynamic Strategic Plan in an Unpredictable World. But planning is essential to success, if you do it right. They can never let down their guard.”

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

My article was about the significance of anniversaries as important milestones. My articles reflect the Big Picture of Business. Long-term track record, unlike anything accomplished by any other individual, all contributing toward organizational philosophy, purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Management changes, or our strategic plan is rebuffed, or people simply don’t perform the way we think they will. Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted Why Showing Appreciation To Your Team Makes A Difference. David’s article outlines 12 principles of quality leadership.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning. I know from experience that planning while going through the ‘alligators’ is the most effective way to conduct the process. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I facilitated a strategic planning session for senior executives. One of the core strategic imperatives they felt vital to their success in the coming year was a “People Strategy.” But the executives were in favor of HR developing a talent management and engagement strategy. They see it loud and clear.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 10, 2011

Vague statements about planned change, elaborate schematic drawings of the planning function, diverse planning models, and five-year plans that are in fact “shelf-documents” created for evaluation agencies or for year-end reports offer minimal assistance to top-level managers as they respond to internal and external governance systems”.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Some of the best-intended and least effective leaders I have known regularly read lots of books and even more articles on leadership. They often know the buzz words and the jargon, the latest trend in strategic planning, and the best way to build a new organizational chart. Doing is the hard part. It doesn’t work that way.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. 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. Holds benchmarks for Continuous Quality Improvement.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Plans are in writing to address inventories and reducing surplus. Legal compliance and precautions plan is annually updated, with measurable goals. Business development.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Leadership authority Roxana (Roxi) Hewertson is a no-nonsense business veteran revered for her nuts-and-bolts, tell-it-like-it-is approach and practical, out-of-the-box insights that help both emerging and expert managers, executives and owners boost quantifiable job performance in various mission critical facets of business.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2014

Whatever methods (legal and ethical of course) you use, you need to discover at least these SIX key things about your candidates BEFORE you hire. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2010

What is equally amazing is that is where much of the stuff is made too (so if their is pollution or a stretch in ethics of how something is made we might be able to turn a blind eye)! His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. The Big Picture.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Decisions made in full view of those who would provide critical judgment – shareholders, regulators, employees, and the public – provides a powerfully strong guiding force that demands decision-makers fully vet the business and ethical implications of each option and soundly support their ultimate selection.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Some advance into management and encounter similar situations there too.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

This includes sales , marketing, customer support, pricing, and revenue management, distinctly mapping out the path to sustainable, profitable growth. A CRO must possess a diverse skill set to deliver on various responsibilities, from revenue growth management to strategic initiatives.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. At TechProse, he drives business development for the consulting firm that specializes in knowledge/content management, training, and documentation for major U.S.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2011

At the time our mission statement was, “ Anything for a buck, as long as it is legal and ethical. &# So we were paid to take a newsletter promotion Sid was doing for his business, we was a gifted writer (and a student of great copy writers), and attach a penny to each of the 18,000 newsletters. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

I discussed creating a ‘learning – thinking’ organization in the first article and a trusting organization in the following two. This final article examines creating a respected organization. Respected organizations are often marked by the depth of esteem in which the community holds them.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

First-ever article on Dick Clark, as a business case study. Be ethical. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. No related articles. No related articles.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. By itself, Budgeting does not constitute full-scope planning and business strategy. Are budgeting measures used to manage performance? Is the performance management system focused upon outcomes?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. Quotes on The Future.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

How well do you know your employees’ skills, work ethic, and willingness to embrace change? Mahesh Rao’s extensive travel and keen cultural awareness, along with his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, contribute to his ability to see processes clearly, from the big picture to the details. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Training is unfairly blamed and scapegoated for pieces of the organizational mosaic that Strategic Planning and cohesive corporate Vision should have addressed early-on. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Most management subsystems succeed or fail according to the clarity of goals of the overall organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Latham, two of the best known academic researchers on goal-setting, wrote an article in American Psychologist summarizing their 35 years of research. So the argument for strategic goal setting seemed settled. Team Building Articles. Creating an Ethical Workplace. In 2002, professors Edwin A. Locke and Gary P.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become “management.” This requires planning, purpose and commitment. The management that takes steps to “fix themselves” rather than always projecting problems upon other people will have a successful organization.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And if you’re a hiring manager, you may have found that the best way to shrink that pile of résumés on your desk is to weed out the seemingly ‘overqualified’ workers first. To back up these assertions, the HBR article cites studies from folks at the University of Connecticut, the University of South Carolina, St.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This article will examine the last five Building Blocks of Trust. This book will explore how our institutional leaders can make claim once again to ethical, fair, and purposeful practices that underscore the value of human beings as the linchpins of our society.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

To the general public, it has come to epitomize the dysfunction of Wall Street—the greed, risk and lack of ethics that drove profits over the last twenty years, but went relatively ignored until the recent collapse. Unlike Santander, Goldman lost sight of its brand promise.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning. I know from experience that planning while going through the “alligators” is the most effective way to conduct the process. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises. Evaluate your progress.

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LDRLB

MARCH 10, 2014

Within that, what’s probably most relevant to your listeners would be the contributions that I and my coauthors and partners make to leaders going into new positions by helping them accelerate their transitions and we do that, first through the work we do with new leaders, through the articles we write, and through our books. You know this.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. These are managers, concerned with structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision and the effects of management decisions. Leadership comes from inner quests, ethical pursuits and professional diligence.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

That was caused by previous management. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. When you suggest that a more targeted customer focus would benefit all, including their bottom line, management often gets pious, argumentative and confrontational. Learn to manage change, rather than become a victim of it.

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