Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2014

Holy frijoles, 2013 is over! What was your 2013 resolve? Here’s my formula: Situation + Opportunity + Objective + Why + Plan + Intentions + Responsibility = Favorable Outcome. IDENTIFY YOUR BIG PICTURE: What’s going on in your life and your career right now? ” “Why do I want to grow my career?”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership BS is a compendium of human nature. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ). It describes well the hypocrisy in all of us. We don’t always meet our own standards. We don’t always reward what we say we value.

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Over the course of my career many leaders have lamented this: “Little I say seems to be resonating !?!?”. As a leader it’s your job to use communication to help your audience make the connection between business objectives and their role in helping you meet them. Originally featured on Linked 2 Leadership, May 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Transitioning from a military career to the corporate world can be a fraught process for the nearly 360,000 U.S. In addition to networking their way into new professional circles and learning new cultural mores, veterans have to face down the even more fundamental questions: what career will best suit them?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2013

You seem to be doing the right thing – INCREASING SALES, and having the best year of your career. Let me address sales leaders… REALITY QUESTION FOR SALES MANAGERS: Why would you, as a leader, take an improving salesperson who is having the best year of their career, and tell him or her they’re “not making enough calls”?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We wanted to test the extent to which gender-based double standards are present in a competitive context, where evaluators have access to objective performance information and are motivated to evaluate candidates based on quality alone. exchange over a six-year period (2008 to 2013). But how pervasive is this problem, exactly?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You are confident based on an objective, not assumed point of view. You are willing to partner with others and you listen with an objective and compassionate for the greater good of the organization. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Confidence comes from a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Hoosiers Submitted by Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog : “This article I wrote Feeling Equal to Someone Senior Than You mentions the movie Hoosiers. It''s too easy to get wrapped up in the details and handle them well while losing sight of the main objective.” Never saw the movie, but know the scene well, as do we all.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Companies don’t want to “waste their time” on someone who “can’t decide without talking to their spouse” because the objection they use is, “I’m going to talk this over with my…” The bottom line is that company is rude, stupid, and will lose people (just like they lost you).

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2013

The object of Twitter is to be re-tweeted by your followers, thereby exposing you to new people (customers). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Have something profound to say that your followers would be compelled to send to THEIR followers. OUTREACH: Tweet a value message at least twice a day. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Employers must be concerned about the stress levels of their work force as it can have a damaging impact on employee productivity.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

Management, by contrast, is focused primarily on coordinating action to fulfill objectives established by leaders. And how do we develop their skills and careers? Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What is our vision and mission? What kind of alliances will we need to make? Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We find that the most forward-thinking companies are identifying and growing leaders in the midst of pursuing critical business objectives, as opposed to sending them off to far-flung educational programs and hoping they return with “big” insights about themselves and the world. What works instead?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Set objectives and size. Having clear objectives helps prioritize the group’s efforts and also measure success. The primary objectives in creating our team were to rein in spending on external strategy firms and to attract, train, and retain top talent in the company. Exceed client expectations. Attract top talent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. If that objective is persistently left unaccomplished, investors will allocate their capital elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ” Education, then, is not usually an incremental step to a better way to make a living life or a waystation to another career. It normally aspires to social, not selfish, purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

“Eight out of 10 participants in the Corporate Service Corps program say it significantly increases the likelihood of them completing their career at IBM,” Stanley Litow, VP of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, told us. The volunteer team has since produced a second app, El Recetario, for more advanced students.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

“Eight out of 10 participants in the Corporate Service Corps program say it significantly increases the likelihood of them completing their career at IBM,” Stanley Litow, VP of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, told us. The volunteer team has since produced a second app, El Recetario, for more advanced students.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. ’” Here’s a sample mid-career resume that does this well (source: John Lees, Knockout CV ). See below for exactly what to include.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Ever since Descartes, the detached, rational objectivity of the observer has been prized over all other forms of knowledge. In management, in particular, it is clear that people, unlike objects, react poorly if they sense they are being treated as items; their behavior becomes erratic and unpredictable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

This is the time to “think small”— both in terms of the number of objectives and the timeframe in which you plan to accomplish them, according to Weintraub. Your ultimate aim is to “move your organization forward and propel your career,” he says. Career planning Article. Be realistic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. It causes conflict in couples who then need to battle it out over who does what at home and whose career takes precedence at work. It seems essential in 2013 to recognize the difference.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

One company that successfully developed an objective definition of “executive fit” is Ingersoll Rand. Hiring for this more colleague-centric type of fit can improve performance at the two-year mark by 30%, our research shows. It has more than twice the impact of assessing only for general culture fit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

One 2013 study illustrates this well. Researchers asked almost 2,500 workers to analyze medical images for “objects of interest.” ” They told one group that the work would be discarded; they told the other group that the objects were “cancerous tumor cells.”

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. Learn when deadline crunch time is best to accomplish the optimum business objectives. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It was written by Rod Sterling and starred Jack Palance and Ed Wynn. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). An empowered workforce must support the corporate objective, and the art with which it does spells success.). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. I wrote editions of the Kalendar for radio and newspapers. That’s how I will love you.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

“Still No Progress After Years of No Progress,” reads Catalyst’s recently released 2013 census of women directors and executive officers in the Fortune 500. To increase the sample size for a country-focused analysis of New Zealand, we administered the survey to a second wave of New Zealand directors between December 2012 and March 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.” Monitor promotions and career advancement. The fallacy of meritocracy in male-dominated organizations is well-documented.

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