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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

By blindly creating and/or tolerating working conditions in which people do not and often cannot effectively listen to one another, we kill productivity and profitability. This will require a dramatic shift in the way we train our leaders, managers, and team members, but it is the key to inventing new, more powerful futures together.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Enterprise social collaboration is a way for organizations to leverage social tools to improve employee engagement, bolster productivity and tap into a company’s collective intelligence. Prior to founding AgreeYa, Ajay was responsible for managing engagements for Deloitte Consulting, serving private and public sector clients.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Many organizations confuse the occasional ‘lightning strike’ of a new idea or product innovation with having a culture that fosters innovation. The greatest enemy of innovation is modern management. Thus, in many organizations, innovators are largely suppressed for the sake of “productivity.” About the Author.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Perhaps a manager is present to take care of the problem, or maybe you have to wait for a phone call; either way, neither you nor the employee are pleased with the lack of progress during your interaction. This disenchantment is painfully clear in the Gallup 2013 State of the American Workplace survey.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. They not only kill productivity and profitability, they also kill the generative moods of ambition, confidence, and trust that are essential to building consistent competitive advantage.

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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!” These scientists and engineers develop innovative products and breakthrough ideas. The atmosphere was so calm. Sustain your energy.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Degenerative or unproductive moods are tremendous, yet invisible, killers of productivity and profitability. Yet contemporary management theory rarely recognizes the importance of moods and the impact they can have on productivity and profitability. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. In the business world, waste kills productivity and profitability.

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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. Here’s the list.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 26, 2012

This year, I contributed a 23 page chapter in “ The ASTD Management Development Handbook ” published by American Society for Training and Development. 2012 also bought me the recognition amongst “ Top 20 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media (at #4) ” by Society of Human Resources Management, SHRM India. Improvement is not a product.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. You can start with near-competitors – companies that use similar technologies but make different product lines.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2013

The first weeks of 2013 were barely out of the gate when one industry analyst was already predicting that Big Data would be Time magazine’s 2013 “Person of the Year.” Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Complimentary Resource – Data, Data Everywhere: A Special Report on Managing Information.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization.

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QAspire

JANUARY 11, 2016

In this 2013 HBR video (6.42 Real Influence is a By-Product. Leading in a complex world is almost like a tight rope walk and leaders cannot afford to have singular focus on either task or relationship. They have to constantly strike a balance between needs of the context, their own needs and the needs of others.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Consider leaving a comment!

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

Magazine which recognized me as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts , putting me alongside such leadership heavyweights as Sir Richard Branson, Vineet Nayar, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Peter F. Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. What Have You Learned Going Forward?

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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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Coaching Tip

JULY 23, 2013

Office cliques can affect workplace culture in a variety of ways.according to nationwide survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder from May 14 to June 5, 2013, among a representative sample of nearly 3,000 full-time, private sector U.S. The survey found that not all managers succeed at staying neutral.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

When we mismanage relationships, the fall-out affects productivity and quite possibly our ability to advance. Your success at work depends on your ability to set the kinds of boundaries that encourage mutual respect and keep the focus on productivity. Here are 4 ways you can set boundaries: Manage Your Time. Express Yourself.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

As an alternate solution, why not take a ‘production’ approach to the issue and look at your organization from a value-adding standpoint. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. Make Metrics Visible and Accessible – Having workers, managers, supervisors, and executives see metrics helps employees make decisions and take action.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2013

AMA Business Boot Camp : Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. AMA Business Boot Camp edited by American Management Association (AMA) International CEO Edward T. Reilly is a reader’s digest of fundamental management and leadership skills. edited by Edward T. About the Book.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2013

AMA Business Boot Camp : Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. AMA Business Boot Camp edited by American Management Association (AMA) International CEO Edward T. Reilly is a reader’s digest of fundamental management and leadership skills. edited by Edward T. About the Book.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. Innovation Capital.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

While the presenting issue – resolving a budget shortfall, agreeing on a new strategy, or choosing which products to develop – is undoubtedly important, it’s often an unstated, underlying issue that stands in the way of a solution. Here are 4 assumptions that can get in the way of making great decisions. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

They’re internal actions that build trust, earn respect, and create a team of inspired people – inspired to be productive and do their best… Great leaders are value providers, not order givers. Don’t focus on task or project completion. Rather, think what will happen AFTER the project is completed. Outcome, not task.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Artower Advisory Services, LLC partner to provide healthcare industry executives and managers with Affordable Care Act mandated Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) program consulting services. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Corrective action programs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Now, more than ever, we need strategies for being productive. Earlier this year, as part of an online summit taking place in January 2016, I invited 26 bestselling science and productivity writers to share their insights for achieving top performance. But where do we start? Own your time. Recognize busyness as a lack of focus.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

They’ve refined the buying process so far that they have precluded the words ‘quality’ and ‘value’ from the buying process AND they have taken the words productivity, ease of use, and morale out of the delivery process. The main goal of bidding is NOT get the best product. Nor, for the most part, do they care.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2013

words for 2013 – I hope they inspire you to think about and select yours: 1. I’m increasing my speed of writing productivity by more than 50%, while still maintaining perfect thought flow and expression. I have more projects and opportunities than I can say grace over. Ever-mindful, laser-focused, bright light.

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