Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online business performance assessment forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers better assess the performance of their business operations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2016

in 2015, according to the Kauffman Index. That can be a serious problem since leadership competency is a critically important success factor, and not everyone is a natural at it. That’s why it makes sense to divide operational areas up and assign ultimate authority of each to one person. Divide responsibilities.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Acknowledge that there are forces far greater than yourself that operate within you. You need personal discipline to bring greater depth and humanity to your leadership. Erica lectures and writes widely on subjects of Jewish interest and leadership and lives with her husband and four children in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The problem lies in the organization itself, its culture, leadership, and the organizational structure. This will require strong leadership and a desire for change throughout the organization. Johnson is an award winning author writing primarily in the field of leadership and personal development. About the Author.

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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. Look at Volkswagen in 2015. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. Quotes on The Future. ” Yogi Berra.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a sample of how bad things really are: The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2015 Dealership Workforce Study (the most current study of its kind) found that car sales consultants had the highest turnover at 72 percent annually (non-luxury turnover was 80 percent, luxury turnover was 48 percent).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. Rasmus is author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at work with Mindfulness”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, October 2015. Her clients include Yahoo!7, All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. How We Learn.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. 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. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2016

Most of my clients have a list of espoused values (what we say we believe) and a notion of operating values (how things are done around here). Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. You just finished reading Strategic Resolutions for 2016 !

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. operate with the new solution without facing major disruption. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Indeed, it’s possible to make money AND make nice.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Research shows they can be cut in half.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice. Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011).

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. He now runs the Spears Center for Servant-Leadership (Indianapolis), and serves as Servant-Leadership Scholar at Gonzaga University (Spokane). Discovering Servant-Leadership 2:13. Defining Servant-Leadership Defining 0:28 5:47.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Although roughly 1,000 employees had been fired each year since 2011 for these practices, the board only became “very active” on the issue in 2015. It was yet another two years before Stumpf brought in consultants in 2015 to investigate the full scope of impact on consumers. ” Deterrents to speaking up.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S. For a deeper look into the distinctions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 2015 guidance document ). Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015. of employment in 2005 to 9.6% These distinctions matter.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

I would need a unity strategy, so I looked at some Military Strategies: Counter-offensive: the term used by the military to describe large-scale, usually strategic offensive operations by forces that had successfully halted the enemy’s offensive, while occupying defensive positions. Visit the entire article here.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%. But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary. This shift means that PE firms’ approaches to talent and leadership must also change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio. It starts with leadership support. In Year One, we have avoided 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. We tend to make a great fuss about leadership these days, but communityship is more important. Hence managers have get beyond their individual leadership, to recognize the collective nature of effective enterprise. Is crowdfunding in this global village quite the same?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. military’s Joint Staff network, which the Washington Post reports was compromised in August 2015 via a measly phishing e-mail. In 2015 , the U.S. Inconvenient?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Leadership begins with sharing a vision with many people in numerous communities from diverse walks of life. According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, more than 1,500 deaths in Massachusetts in 2015 were attributable to a fatal dose of heroin or an opioid-based painkiller — nearly four people per day statewide.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Its market value of $46 billion (as of June 2015) is larger than that of Uber, Snapchat, or even Palantir. The company uses direct sales from its web site; social media; fan engagement; and weekly updates to its Android-based operating system to get ahead of rivals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. corporations from 1985 to 2015. The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. firms, and put the brakes on diversification.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction. In 2015 Chrysler announced a recall for 1.4 Such practices need to become standard operating procedure across all industries. Secure-by-Design. That needs to change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. Many have speculated since about failures of its leadership under its bullish former CEO, Fred Goodwin.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The resulting wellness-focused “ OB Nest ” integrated care model for low-risk pregnancies, now implemented within obstetrics and gynecology at Mayo, reduces patient visits while improving satisfaction (see an HBR article on OB Nest here.). To source ideas, it often runs two-day hack-a-thons on specific health care challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2015 report, the Boston Consulting Group labeled the occurrence “ leapfrog successions.” The second, more qualitative piece, keyed in on leadership ability based on a multitude of in-depth interviews with the leader’s peers, supervisors, and direct reports done by our internal executive talent team.

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