Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

No matter how impressive or ‘efficient’ an IT system claims to be, it will never replace the passion, joy, creativity, and spontaneity of people – all of which are essential to generating competitive advantage. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Shift Your Understanding.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Instead of tired practices like ‘active listening’ (whereby one is taught to parrot back what someone says, which only shows that you heard what was said, not that you understood), our teams must develop a new set of competencies in which they learn to clarify what they interpreted in a conversation, not what they heard.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

But for this to truly be the case, innovation should not be something that happens every once in a while; it should be viewed as a critical competence – a skill to be developed, fostered, rewarded, and embedded into the workforce. In the new business world, innovation should not be restricted to product development.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In this newly-emerging business world, one key component for generating competitive advantage is being able to consistently design and deploy the generative moods of ambition, confidence, trust, and esprit. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Shift Your Understanding. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When leaders are willing to make the shift away from bureaucratic work styles and structures, develop listening as a key management competence, generate cultures that welcome innovation, and build systems and processes that support this new way of working, their people will once again experience meaning and purpose in their working lives.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We are facing a new world – one that calls for new approaches to generating consistent competitive advantage. The near-universal rush to cut costs and headcount is more likely distracting us from, rather than enabling, the real work of retooling our enterprises to be competitive in this new world. Suppressing Innovation.

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