Author: Gerald J. Leonard

Team Building

PofE 061: Tony Dungy – Team Building Principles

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Building A Super Bowl Caliber Team Team-Building-and-Coaching Flow

"Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity." -Vince Lombardi

Background and Challenges:

  • Tony Dungy started his football career as a quarterback at the University of Minnesota and was later signed as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Steelers as a defensive back.
  • His contributions helped lead to the implementation of the Rooney Rule, requiring teams to interview minority coaches. Many of the coaches who worked under him have gone on to coach their own teams, including Lovie Smith, whom his Colts defeated in Super Bowl XLI.
Books

PofE 060: Book Review – Deep Dive

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Premise:

 
The premise of "Deep Dive" is that there are four types of strategic thinkers. These four types of strategic thinkers embrace a very different approach to utilizing proven repeatable processes for building organizational strategy. "Deep Dive" takes into account our need as strategic thinkers to understand the type of thinkers that are most effective and a process for making the most of our limited resources while also taking smart steps to accomplish your goals. The four strategic thinkers are beach bums, snorkelers, scuba divers, and free divers.
 
• Beach bums are strategic thinkers that sit on the shore and make an attempt to get into the water of strategic thinking; however, they do not contribute to the strategic insights which help businesses grow, and they average around 9% of all strategic thinkers.
 
Transformational Change

Services

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Risks

PofE 059: How Sustainability and Innovation Is Used In Risk Management

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Guest Post by John Anderson – Executive Street Contributor

Risks are inevitable whether it be in business or in simple day-to-day activities. But what can be controlled are your actions towards handling those potential risks. Instead of merely reacting, you have to be proactive with your risk management decisions and here are some ways that may help you do just that.

Essentially, the four methods of risk management are the following:

Communication

PofE 058: 5 Clever Marketing Strategies That Are Actually Mistakes

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Guest Post by John Anderson

Executive Street Contributor

Marketing is a subtle and ever changing art. Formulating strategies can be a daunting task, as it requires you to become adaptable to any changes in the environment that your enterprise belongs to. Yes, small changes can influence the entirety of a business, and with the changes in the marketing field happening fast, most of us should do some rethinking in our approaches. Most of the strategies that marketers use today seem to be obsolete, and what’s worse? They have no idea that it doesn’t work. Now, let us explore these marketing strategies that are only deemed good on paper, and not so much in practice.

 

Communication

PofE 057: Strategic Management Consultant Ram Charan Knows How To Execute Business Strategy

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The-words-What-Now-asking-questions"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

-Alexander Graham Bell 

Background and Challenges:

  • Ram Charan was born in 1939, the sixth of seven children in Uttra Pardesh, India, which is located in northern India near the Himalayan Mountains. As a child, he grew up in a second floor home which had no indoor plumbing or electricity. He also pumped water from an outdoor well and collected cow dung to burn in his mother's oven. 
  • While working in the family business, Ram developed the habit of consolidating everything he learned each day onto a single sheet of paper. He was also guided by the values he learned while studying the Sanskrit literature. He learned the value and benefit of hard work and that mastery had its own reward.
Continuous Improvement

PofE 056: Ray Kroc’s Small Business Ideas Created a Process Driven Fast Food Franchise

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Group-Of-Teenagers-Sitting-Out"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist."

-J. Paul Getty

Background and Challenges:

  • He was born on October 5, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois to Rose and Louis Kroc. Rose was a competent pianist and encouraged her son to develop a love for music.
  • He demonstrated an entrepreneurial trait when he started a music store with his friend, which went under due to lack of capital.
Team Building

PofE 055: Dave Thomas Built a Fast Food Restaurant That’s Building a Legacy Supporting Adoption

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Mom hugging her adopted boy."No legacy is so rich as honesty." -William Shakespeare

 

Background and Challenges:

  • Born on July 2, 1932, Dave Thomas was born an orphan in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He never learned the identity of his mother.
  • Rex and Auleva Thomas adopted him at the age of six weeks. His adopted mother passed away when Dave was five.
  • His father sought support from his parents to help raise Dave as he moved frequently looking for work.