Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

This compensation system gives everyone–coach, client, and stakeholders—an important role in the process. 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?” The client doesn’t determine if he or she is “better.”

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

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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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2013

The 2013 program runs from March 6 to May 1. Teams are often placed together with little to no system for knowing how to effectively achieve goals and how to overcome challenges in the team process. I never looked at various committees I’m on or parts of my job that are project oriented as teams. WHO SHOULD APPLY.

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Team Building Team Class Committee 124

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A visual progress chart of team project. The project-team uses post-it notes to write the tasks in succinct language. Creating a shared language for team behaviors then exploring the system-that-drives those behaviors increases team effectiveness. Looking forward to meeting and working with your team and leaders in 2013.

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Team Building Team SWOT Leadership 136

Strategy Driven

MARCH 27, 2013

Executive leader brings hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. While there, he oversaw multi-$100+ million nuclear and non-nuclear lifecycle maintenance projects for the U.S. Navy’s West Coast ballistic missile submarines. Naval Post Graduate School.

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Chief Operating Officer Operations Chief Executive Officer Engineering 62

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.

Productivity 64

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

“By fostering an organizational culture that puts safety-first, executives and managers create a workplace environment where errors are recognized and proactively corrected before they result in a material event.” Nathan Ives is a StrategyDriven Principal , and Host of the StrategyDriven Podcast.

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White Paper Industry Risk Management Chief Operating Officer 62

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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Greg’s complete biography, click here. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Transportation Tactics Execution Six Sigma 58

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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Greg’s complete biography, click here. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 58

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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Operations Chief Executive Officer Uncertainty Strategic Planning 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Greg’s complete biography, click here. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 64

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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Metrics Process BPM KPI 52

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. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. When considering approaches to search for inefficiencies within your organization, how should you begin?

Tactics 50

Tactics Efficiency Six Sigma Execution 50

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. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. It was immediately launched.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Inflate budgets. Never take the blame.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Those in senior-management roles may have trouble seeing or identifying with this phenomenon and may mistakenly assume it only happens in other organizations. We at the Human Potential Project are not naïve dreamers who think the transition to this new way of working will happen on its own or overnight. Shift Your Understanding.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Chief Executive Officer 71

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

About ten years ago, somebody sent me a PDF file of Dr. Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” It had been published in the journal of the Society for Health Systems (an organization I am active with today, including running the Red Bead Experiment at their 2016 conference). Guest post by Mark Graban.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unfortunately, contemporary management theory offers no alternatives to this style of organizing work and designing organizational structures. Current hierarchically oriented systems – no matter how lean and ‘matrixed’ – are relics of the bygone era of WWII industrialization and manufacturing. About the Author.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. IT management Leadership Project management' billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s

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Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

He is credited with inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and, most importantly, the electric light bulb and the accompanying distribution system for electric power. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. Ohno’s inventions became the foundation of the quality movement that swept the world starting in the 1970s and ’80s and evolved into what is today known as the Toyota Production System. Modern Indentured Servitude.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. That sounds like progress.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! presents High Performing Organizations Manage Change Well. Regardless of the talent management and retention strategies you employ, this post shares three tips that will help you build a foundation of trust with your top performers.”. Karin Hurt.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Lewin 249

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. Medicine involves leadership. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

As managers we cycle between these modes constantly. It''s the mark of a great manager to be able to judge, in a complex situation, when and how to use each of them. In the middle of this spectrum are the liberal arts and the mongrel discipline that we call "management". Detached observation requires a certain maturity.

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Management Drucker Maturity Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 6, 2012

But after all the presents are wrapped (and then opened), after the decorations have been put away (or not), after the ball has dropped in Times Square, it’ll be time to get back to work and show 2013 who’s boss! Since that’s too long to say, I just call it the Irresistible Change Guide.).

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Strategy Management Webinar Document 78

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

What you need to do is look at the sales cycle and parenthetically look at the dollars, but they have to be compared to what you projected those dollars to be. Jeffrey, You are pretty critical of CRM systems. And it’s the managers or the leaders responsibility to help them be responsible for themselves.

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CRM Advertising Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

Organizational performance measurement systems are complex constructs that significantly impact leadership decisions, employee behaviors, and management processes and systems. Acceptance of a new or upgraded performance monitoring system centers on metric and report accuracy. Technology Related Challenges.

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System Metrics KPI Document 72

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Oversee resource allocation and budgeting.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

At the consultancy where she used to work, Karla Martin, Google ’s Director of Global Business Strategy, watched a partner repeatedly offer the lead role on new business to a white male whom she had previously led on a massive cost-reduction project for a multimillion-dollar client. ” What, or who, will open the door?

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Management Diversity Report Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Several executives at the company offered to talk with us to figure out why the program has been so successful—not just as a philanthropic gesture, but as a talent development system. So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects. Diane Statkus, an IBM project manager in Boston, echoes Ruiz’s sentiments.

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Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Several executives at the company offered to talk with us to figure out why the program has been so successful—not just as a philanthropic gesture, but as a talent development system. So far, IBMers have completed over 1,000 projects. Diane Statkus, an IBM project manager in Boston, echoes Ruiz’s sentiments.

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Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency overseeing the technically troubled Affordable Care Act exchanges , has done a far better job concealing the details of its systems design, development, and deployment practices than producing working websites. That’s what serious systems developers do. Look deeper.

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Software System Project Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

With job growth lagging and an eager workforce that's unable to find opportunities that match their skill sets , it would be a mistake for hiring managers to lose faith in peoples' ability to learn, adapt, and produce in new roles. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Cisco's Deborah Henken, senior manager with Learning@Cisco.

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Discount Training Insurance Education 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But the development landscape is littered with projects that never got past the pilot stage. When the seed funding from philanthropies or governments runs out, if projects haven’t signed up enough paying users, there’s nothing to fuel growth. As simple as it sounds, development projects need revenue.

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Technology Globalization Project System 8