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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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As Take a careful look at Christensen’s writings and talks, and look for ways to apply them in your role as product manager.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Health Care Magazine 225

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. What do our leaders need to be good at in order to drive our business forward and sustain a positive culture that ensures high engagement and maximum contribution? What is expected of leadership today?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 322

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2013

Transforming an organization while keeping day-to-day operations running is like fixing a car as it is being driven; it’s complicated, risky, and it’s not clear whether the team can pull it off. Speak with peers (internal and external) who have managed similar change projects.

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Project Learning-by-Doing Skills Environment 257

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches. Related articles.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

Each of us has a powerful need to positively affect the people and world around us. And embracing a shared noble goal ultimately delivered positive business returns. I believe Encore’s runaway success was directly tied to this shift in management philosophy and culture. But our individual success is not what we care most about.

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Goal Motivation Learning-by-Doing CEO 171

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The idea of what we focus on was one of the central themes of my talk on what leaders need to address in terms of managing the various challenges their organization faces or will face going forward. Guy Kawasaki and Tanveer Naseer – MHLC 2013 3. “It’s

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Organization Conference Audience Globalization 264

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

Neither of these is a good metric for achieving a positive, long-term change in behavior. They only pay me if they get better—meaning they achieve positive, measurable change. My dad operated a two-pump gas station. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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Long-term Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Metrics 130

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. This has made the once-fabled unicorn a much more frequent sight, with recent valuations hitting the frothy heights of 40-50 times revenue. trillion at the time of writing.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

Why is positivity diminishing and hostility, stress, and depression increasing? 29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). Or, “We all agree, everyone is operations is ancient and smells like moth balls.”.

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How To Bond Positioning Stress 109

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. Sensors mean that an object on the production line always arrives in an optimal position, reducing waste, energy costs and human intervention.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

population earning almost 60 percent of both undergraduate and Master’s degrees, also holding almost 52 percent of all professional-level jobs, American women lag substantially behind men when it comes to their representation in leadership positions (CAP, Catalyst, Center for Economic Development): They are only 14.6 percent of the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Because individuals tend to act in a manner that is positively reflected by measures documenting their performance, this time dependence tends to place intended and unintended productivity pressure on those monitored. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Performance Measure Timing Impacts. Intended Impacts.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Despite the realization that computer software greatly enhances the efficiency with which businesses operates, the use of recruitment software is not widespread. A recruitment software package will post a position multiple times, both on internal sites and on as many external sites as you wish. Quicker Job Postings.

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Succession Talent Management Software Human Resources 63

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

I was amazed when more than 12,000 people applied for the 15 positions. Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Then Ayse asked us to describe what made us think of them as heroes.

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Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 63

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #3: Bureaucratic Styles.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

An operations goal might articulate a cost savings. An operations area of focus might identify areas you want to explore for cost savings. A sales goal, for example, might name a revenue target or a specific number of new clients won. Obviously these aren't mutually exclusive. How do you do it? The rest takes care of itself.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” Similarly, Philip Morris renamed itself Altria when it was trying to position the company more as a food marketer and less as a tobacco company.

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Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. How can you start each day being positive and ready to lead under these circumstances? Turbulence.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. But many of the trends are picking up speed now and should become even more pronounced in 2013. Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD.,

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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 as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. So where Ford incorporated everything into one integrated mega-plant, Ohno designed operations for a network of factories. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. ’ When there is a discussion, people look to you to see what your view is before they take a position. Conflict needs to be managed, measured, and meaningful. Train everyone on the team in conflict management skills. #3 You couldn’t be more wrong. About the Author.

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Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 91

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Create-Learning Facilitators Arrive and set-up - Create-Learning trouble-shoots and ensures all audio / visual equipment is operational - Companies planning committee and Create-Learning meet to go over logistics i.e. lunch, breaks, safety, order of events, what if situations, etc…. Whats Going to Happen? hopes from our time together.

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Team Building Process Transportation Follow-up 76

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

And this is understandable if we appreciate that – thanks to the faster-pace by which we now have to operate – it’s become harder for people to make those connections for themselves.” Numerous studies have shown that employees have higher expectations of their leaders to not simply be effective at managing tasks, but at developing people.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Environment Succession 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

How do you use your résumé to tell stories that match those new positions’ requirements? You can have a foundational version that compellingly articulates your most important information, but you may have to alter it, perhaps only slightly, for each position you’re applying for. Here’s how.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.”

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Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. He still talks about one senior manager—a man he’d spent years teaching the business to—who left a while back after taking an executive education program and being wooed away by one of our competitors. Date: May 12, 2013 21:37.

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Case Study Engineering Commitment Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I remember well when the idea of applying complexity science to management was first being eagerly discussed in the 1990s. Gallen had developed a management model based on systems thinking. Managers'' eyes were opened to the reality that organizations are not just complicated but complex.

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