Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Written in a clear, professional and straightforward manner, it is relevant to the management of all types of projects, including IT, construction, engineering, telecommunications and government, as well as many others. Openness and honesty are always the best tools for setting customer expectations.

Project 56

Project Goal Management Budgeting 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

If you are ready to stir the pot and lead by example, Soup is a fun and engaging story that supplies you with the tools you need to build a winning team – at work, school, or home. DO: Respond constructively when someone offers up an idea. People are hungry for positive change and a fresh sense of purpose and passion.

Gordon 58

Gordon Energy Bottom-up Newsletter 58

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Do you understand small unit tactics? Constructive feedback? Can you operate weapons? You gotta know the business. You gotta have business savvy. Administration/management. Can you organize things? Account for things? Control things? Conserve things? Can you use the machines and devices and programs that do these things? Facilities.

Skills 44

Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

Outsiders offering solutions ‘foreign’ to the system and without the tools to teach the relevant parts of the system to make the appropriate changes, face resistance as the new solutions get rejected out of hand. help them set up the steps and means (tactically) to make those changes. Facilitators can lead Others through.

Skills 50

Skills Resistance Self-aware System 50

Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 17, 2010

Don’t try to over explain and (given that most people quit because of their relationship with their boss) don’t bother trying to offer any “constructive” feedback to your boss at this point. Be constructive… if you have the opportunity to provide feedback during the exit interview, be as constructive as possible.

How To 31

How To Construction Reputation Career 31

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I view machine learning as any data-driven approach to explanations, classifications, and predictions that uses automation to construct a model. The computer constructing the model “learns” during the construction process what model best fits the data. They may also need to work with some new tools.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

At the relatively mild end of the spectrum, unrealistically high targets can motivate employees to game the system using short-term tactics that can be destructive in the long run. When those above you fail in their leadership obligations, the responsibility falls to you. For the people on your team, you are the leadership.

Team 8

Team Management Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Using Waze to drive through cross-town traffic troubled by construction is one example; using an augmented-reality tool to diagnose and repair a mobile device or HVAC system would be another. More sophisticated consultants offer strategic advice to complement their tactical recommendations. • Boss.

Company 10

Company Software Budgeting Consultative 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Keep in mind that these tactics won’t work with lower-quality relationships. Support and constructively challenge each other to learn. Staff at Jane’s business school designed a six-week course on positive leadership. Encourage members to seek and provide help to each other.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Quality Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

We have the benefit of rich data thanks to the more than seventy thousand individuals who have completed the Leadership Practices Inventory , our thirty-item behavioral assessment, over the years. The point of this tool is to help individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies and act on their discoveries.

Learning-by-Doing 9

Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Drucker Leadership Development 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. used in construction). Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra. Thereafter, tools of the trade (including technology) may be applied. They realize that the old ways of doing business will no longer work. by Hank Moore.

Transportation 69

Transportation Consultative Film Strategic Planning 69

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2016

It used to be the only tool a framer had to frame a house with. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Executive leadership and buy-in. Keep it simple.

Planning 50

Planning Hammer Succession Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We’ve found five tactics especially useful in our effort to keep our company culture healthy and productive. Being open can be so counterintuitive to seasoned workers that a wide variety of tactics for keeping communication open have to be employed. Frequent question-and-answer sessions with leadership.

Politics 15

Politics Tactics Review Learning-by-Doing 15