Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We are facing a new world – one that calls for new approaches to generating consistent competitive advantage. Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. Suppressing Innovation. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Not Listening.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

The availability of online information about you AND your competition is instant. My good friend, Sandy Carter, is one of IBM’s General Managers, and their social selling evangelist. In short, pacesetters use technology for the competitive advantage and the results are more profitable business outcomes.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Too many organizations today have created and tolerated a range of practices in which creativity, innovation, and the fundamental expressions of our thoughts and feelings about our work and our futures are ignored or spurned. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Conflict needs to be managed, measured, and meaningful. Train everyone on the team in conflict management skills. #3 3 Innovation is DOA. You are on a death trajectory, just waiting for the competition to make you irrelevant. You need to re-energize innovation-fast. But just be sure it is the productive kind.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Movies like Thor Dark World and The Avengers actually have significant business value in their themes and characters. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Leadership Role #5: Managing the Action Cycle. This points to a key difference between leaders and managers. Management means coordinating the actions of many individuals in order to deliver on the conditions of satisfaction set by the leader. Today the value generators in any organization are what we call Coordination Workers.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

It may seem an obscure data management distinction, but this shift toward collecting unstructured data – which is a large part of what Big Data is all about – is sending shock waves across traditional organizations. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

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. We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

A thought leader in her field, Ann has worked with many hundreds of organizations around the world of all sizes and industries, helping them increase their thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, productivity, innovation and overall business results. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Those in senior-management roles may have trouble seeing or identifying with this phenomenon and may mistakenly assume it only happens in other organizations. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2015

It doesn’t matter how intelligent or innovative your ideas are if no one can understand you. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 12, 2015

Keogh oversees the production of innovative, high-quality ergonomic work tools that contribute to improving employee productivity and well-being. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 15, 2015

John founded OptifiNow to solve a common problem of enterprise customers – the shared struggle of managing national and global sales teams with brand and legal compliant messaging. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. A legacy of insight.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Clever innovators and creative change agents recognize that solving problems 'inside' a box, when the box itself is the problem, is like moving chairs around on the Titanic. Learn to make change, not just manage it. In 1988 he left corporate management to start his consulting company. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. Their efforts are rewarded through sustained relationships that often endure and grow beyond shifting trends to deliver greatly enhanced lifetime customer value.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2014

Talent Value: Statistics show nearly eight million jobs have been lost by men and, for the first time in this nation’s history, women now hold a majority of the nation’s jobs. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Great leaders are wide open to new ideas and innovation. A coach and a teacher, not a manager or a boss. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 I hope so, but I doubt it.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

My sixth book is Houston Legends , a definitive history of a dynamic global capitol. It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. Recurring themes include pioneer spirit, business innovation, community give-back, growth and vision. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It’s so unusual that customers will set the meeting, and then talk about how innovative it was. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2015

Being open to innovative solutions. Jon Mertz is one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business and highlighted as one of the Leaders to Watch in 2015 by the American Management Association. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

We can choose to look at failures, at least in our daily lives, as life practice, learning, a pilot project, as experimentation, or even a legitimate part of any innovation process. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Many try to come up with new ideas, but few are innovative without trying. A great entrepreneur is someone who can manage their time and their workload. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. Change is innovative. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. Project Management Best Practice 1 – The Project Management Intensity Continuum.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

The already inflated world of ‘reputation management’ websites lured people into buying advertising in order to create the facade of being a ‘consultant.’ Faster innovation. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

Companies like Amazon, Zappos, and Apple have marched to the head of the class by innovating BEFORE the market did, and they set the standard for others to follow. Not manage it, rather allocate it to things I WANT to do, rather than things I HAVE to do. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Achieve big.

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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

MARCH 6, 2014

. “It’s a new financial world on the verge of a complete reorganization,” said Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Equity Markets in Jersey City, New Jersey. Both were defined by financial innovations that seemed to defy the natural law of risk and reward, by promising a high yield and low risk.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2014

In today’s rapidly changing and exceedingly competitive business environment, it is imperative to continually uncover new and innovative ways to stay ahead of the curve and, most importantly, not get left behind. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

In the past, salespeople were often the first step in a purchase process, and could significantly influence customer decision-making by controlling information about pricing, availability, competitive advantage, etc. Great salespeople don’t imitate, they innovate. Great brands ignore trends.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

Managers and employees with the most to lose are most fearful of change. The same fate had fallen the electronics industry, whose innovator (the Thomas Edison Electric Company) fell behind others in leading the trends and usage. Tie activities to customer outcomes (the tenet of Customer Focused Management).

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. Or, like at most companies, are the senior managers incentivized to do the same thing in their departments that they did last year? FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Professional innovation. I remarked to Sonny that I often quoted his song “The Beat Goes On” as analogous to change management, and he was pleased. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Book value is not guaranteed.

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