Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. You just finished reading Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b - Are You Thinking Lean? The ''Wastes'' of Execution: Transportation ! Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. You just finished reading Tactical Execution Best Practice 7a - Are You Thinking Lean? The ''Wastes'' of Execution: Overproduction ! Consider leaving a comment!

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2013

Guest post from Phil Buckley : Most leaders will lead their organizations through multiple big change projects. The first thing leaders need to ask themselves is, “What do I bring to the project?” They may also realize that there are some gaps that need to be filled to successfully lead the project.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2013

Senior executives typically ascend to their elevated positions through the contribution of significant organizational value. While these individuals’ daily activities provided ongoing benefit throughout their careers, there is seldom a more value adding opportunity than successful leadership of a strategic initiative or large-scale project.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Guest post from August Turak : The main reason why transformation fails is because organizations are very resistant to change, especially in organizations where powerful executives have their own interests and territory. Also compassionately remember that executives may not have all the power you give them credit for.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 29, 2013

Take a look at the new book by this author, Quiet Influence: The Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference (Berrett-Koehler, April 2013); I find myself pumping my fist and saying “yes!” Executive coach Vinay Kumar said that most of his writings emerge from deep within when he is jogging. 2. Sustain your energy.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2023

He later ventured into the business world, working as the Executive Director of Magnum Trading Company Ltd in 1975, helping the company explore India’s emerging export market. Through this organization, the family supports medical projects and health education programs globally, including the #OrgansWill campaign in the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. You just finished reading Tactical Execution Best Practice 7 - Target Non-Value-Adding Work to Improve Efficiency ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Large capital projects represent a significant investment on the part of an organization and can therefore impact, either positively or negatively, the company’s financial position, if not its viability. The text above is only a small portion of this article.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity combined with an aging infrastructure, retiring workers, growing regulations, rising capital costs, and intensifying budget pressures challenge utility executives and managers now more than ever before. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 14, 2016

Guest post by Karissa Thacker What is your current specific self-improvement project? I have taken a coaching tip from Mark Zuckerberg, the boy wonder and CEO of Facebook, and have committed myself to one self-improvement project for this entire year. In 2013, he met someone new every day. Is it specific? Is it measurable?

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Jason Womack

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Here are my favorite THREE prompts that I use in my coaching with executives, leaders and managers worldwide. Then, I "challenge" myself to write down AT LEAST 3 bullet points (ideas, projects, goals, ideas, etc) on EVERY card. Write down the year 2013 and ask yourself, "How fast have the past 5 years gone?" The Realist.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

I first walked that trail – 435 miles over 29 days – in 2013 and have returned twice since. Since the Camino, I am more thoughtful when I start a new project to look for lessons from the past. T HE Camino de Santiago is a network of ancient hiking paths that all lead to a shrine to St. James in northwest Spain. Think About the Future.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

In terms of spending clients’ time – my personal coaching clients’ are all executives whose decisions impact billions of dollars – their time is more valuable than mine. The next time you are working on a project, ask yourself, “What would happen to my level of commitment if I knew I was only going to be paid if I achieved results?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I called the project 15 Coaches. Given the overwhelmingly positive response I have received for this project, I have decided to expand the program from 15 to 100 coaches! The project is now called 100 Coaches and I am currently working on the selection of the next 75 coaches! I wish I could mentor everyone who applied.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 27, 2013

and author of Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas (Harvard Business Review Press 2013). He has worked with leading consultancies, CEOs, and senior executives of major companies including members of the Fortune 50, […].

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

Many chief executives and corporate boards recognize they need to alter or even drastically reshape their corporate culture, but few follow through and benefit from the successful transformation they envisioned. Among the successes of this project are: Service department sales up 22% in less than one year.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches ‘pay it forward’ project is officially in full swing, and I am excited to announce the next cohort of coaches who will join me in Phoenix in June! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Develop a discipline to execute your art regularly.That is the only way I know to achieve excellence. In teams and projects, doing what is right (and actually doing it) is more important than proving who is right. June 2012: Leading Projects: Balancing Rational with Emotion. December 2012: Project Management: Science?

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. A former Google executive- wasn’t Mayer supposed to bring new energy to Yahoo!, Your business is adding a new time-management system, which requires employees to log their hours on specific projects. In a company-wide email, she announced Yahoo!

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 2, 2014

Frances Hesselbein is the former national executive director of the Girl Scouts of the United States and is now chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute. Management guru Peter Drucker considered Hesselbein to be the greatest executive he had ever met. She’s also a wonderful human being.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 9, 2014

And more than a story of free throws or defensive execution, the game was a story about patience. Their team had been saddled with NCAA sanctions after the 2012 season, and was unable to participate in the 2013 tournament. Maybe you have to wait on a supervisor’s signature to okay the next phase of your project.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In my new book, Endless Encores , a veteran CEO named Daphne spends an evening talking with an up-and-coming executive named Paul, helping him come to terms with the potential first failure he could be facing following a huge initial success. Projects are always short. That's a lot to bite off in a very few words. It's meant to be.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Of those 8 functional areas, 5 of them are led by senior executives who are in their 60s and expected to retire within the next 3 – 5 years. The other 3 are led by senior executives in their mid-50s. Throughout the program, and in between sessions, participants were assigned projects to lead and had to complete required readings.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 2, 2020

A survey of executives found that women view leaders as those who share their knowledge and connect with their colleagues to help the team and the business. No path to success is free from pitfalls as any entrepreneur or executive will tell you. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the bestseller list with this book in 2013.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 8, 2017

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. I’m stepping away from my email to finish this project. Why does this matter? An interruption as short as 2.8

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2013

Major projects typically add significant operational, financial, reputational, and regulatory risk to an organization’s overall risk profile. This project risk may by itself exceed the normal level of organizational risk leaders are accustomed to dealing with. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I call the opposite of a strategy tourist a Strategy Execution hero. Change jobs regularly to outrun major execution challenges. This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Inflate budgets.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Executive leader brings hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. “We are delighted to welcome Greg to StrategyDriven as our Chief Operations Officer,” says Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC President and Chief Executive Officer.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. This partnership will create a more complete set of offerings that efficiently serve diversified generation utility executives.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2014

Complimentary Resource – Emerging Trends in Project Management. Complimentary Resource – Summer 2013 Mood Tracker Report: Empowering Employees to Improve Performance. Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Why IT Struggles to Innovate, and How IT Management Can Fix It.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

At the end of a particularly long and grueling strategy meeting with the executive team of a major consumer services business, Alan, the chief executive officer, turned to me and said, “Living quarter by quarter is madness, but in a few years’ time people will laugh at us for developing three-year plans.” He was right.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. Have bonuses depend largely, or solely, on executives’ success in tapping big strategic opportunities related to sustainability.

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 3, 2015

The average number of internal emails per mailbox per week at Atos dropped from 100 in 2011 to under 40 by 2013, according to an Atos report posted on the company’s website. The zero email project evolved after the company realized the average employee was spending 15 to 20 hours a week checking and answering internal emails. “My

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