Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Igniting Commitment: Engaging Employees for Breakthrough Performance Having a mediocre team or great team all depends on you. R eward, Recognize, and Develop. Provide training and development to help employees achieve their goals. Such thought is particularly unwise as the economy improves after a downturn.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

IF YOU WILL LEAD, LLC Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Infrastructure Consulting IF YOU WILL LEAD recognizes that your personal and professional success depends, in large part, on your ability to effectively and powerfully lead. The bad news is that it still requires a great deal of work and personal sacrifice.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2010

From a Good Sales Call to a Great Sales Call teaches you how to assess your strengths and weaknesses based on information you can get from the most qualified source available—the buyer. It is only through this type of process that sales teams can learn the true, candid reasons why they win and lose. In short, it works.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Commit to developing and improving your social and emotional skill sets. It’s especially important in today’s social world, or while building your own Social Nation, to recognize your weaknesses and surround yourself and your business with professionals who complement you. And learn to collaborate while you lead.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. Help teams form, adjust, and get and share needed information.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Business development. Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). Poor controls.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Much of the blame has been attributed to poor federal oversight. Execution Gap Maker #5: Johnson & Johnson It’s been a bad year for J&J. Poor execution doesn’t happen overnight. Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. The scandals resulted in one million job cuts.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2011

Companies all over the country have implemented Ann Rhoades’ methods, developed when she was an executive at JetBlue, Southwest, Doubletree and others and perfected at her consulting company, People Ink. In other words, you are never fully “done” with culture change; you must be always vigilant that no one backslides into old ways.

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