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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. High quality service was not a value before we started.

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4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions

Strategy Driven

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. Two bond issues had failed with warring camps arguing about educational quality and fiscal responsibility.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

Strategy Driven

This process is called commitment-based management, and it will be as powerful for the next generation of managers as quality was for the last. Companies generate value when these commitments are clear and crisp and are fulfilled on time, on budget, and as scoped. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

High-quality people can make your life miserable when they get into key jobs. Inflate budgets. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Strategic Planning execution innovation leadership strategy' If things still don’t improve, blame it on the consultant. Don’t support hero promotions. All rights reserved.

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When you walk in empty headed, you walk out empty handed.

Strategy Driven

” WE-WE – Qualifying questions about who decides, budget, or payment. THEM – Testimonials that overcome specific objections – price and quality. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM!

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To bid or not to bid? That is the question.

Strategy Driven

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. Talk to the person who MAKES the budget, not the person who spends it. All rights reserved.

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Don’t Blame IT for Obamacare’s Tech Troubles

Harvard Business Review

The better question and concern is, where was the leadership and oversight helping to assure Obamacare’s implementation success? The underlying truth for virtually every large system’s implementation initiative is that success demands leadership and oversight that holds itself accountable for assuring best practice.