By Eric Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International November 16. 2014 Takeaways: Compare three common leadership styles. Coaching as a leadership skill for business leaders. Eight “Be Attitudes” to help you maximize your ability to hold your team accountable. Sometimes leaders display confusion about some very basic ways to be a leader. One we often…
By Jeri Denniston, Denner Group International November 12,2014 I’m reading A World Gone Social by Ted Coiné and Michael Babbit, and it grabs you in the first few pages. Right at the start the authors give several examples of how social media is creating a sea change in how companies operate. It has caused major…
In their new book, A World Gone Social, Ted Coiné and Mark Babbit share real-world stories and examples of how companies are embracing social media as a platform for building customer relationships and engaging staff. Not just small companies, but Fortune 500 companies. (Coiné is one of the World Strategy Week panelists.) During an Interview…
By Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Officer, Denner Group International Takeaways: Organizational health is more important than any strategic change effort an organization develops. Having clarity about the organization’s direction, ensuring the leadership all agree, and communicating it well are keys to organizational success. According to Patrick Lencioni in his book The Advantage – Why Organizational…
By Eric Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International Takeaways: A trending assessment of Change Management and Enterprise Architecture. The connection between Enterprise Architecture and Transformation. A recent LinkedIn blog started by Jason Uppal, P. Eng. in the LinkedIn Group, Business Transformation Made Straight Forward, has spurred a conversation about what Enterprise Architecture is in simple…
By Eric Denniston, Managing Director, Denner Group International Takeaways: 1) Systems within systems, 2) Seeking out root causes, 3) Interconnectedness Good day gentle readers! Here is a Systems Thinking item for your consideration. I was recently reading the monthly magazine of a global service club and got caught up in a letter to the editor…
By Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International We all know how dependent many of us have become on our smart phones. They’re with us every hour of the day….and in fact, some people (mostly millenials and Gen-Xers) sleep with their phones. You can’t have a meal at a restaurant, go shopping, or walk…
By Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International Toyota has launched a creative way to use Google Hangouts to build their brand. Not that brand recognition is necessary for the #1 car manufacturer in the world. But I’ll bet this helps sell more Corollas. Toyota has taken hangouts to a new level making car…
By Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International A friend shared a link to a survey about workplace productivity killers, posted on The Employer Handbook, published by Eric B. Meyer, Esquire. The survey pointed out that web surfing and social media were considered two of the top culprits after cell phones and texting and…
By Jeri Denniston, Chief Marketing Strategist, Denner Group International April 2014 Takeaways: Leadership skills are enhanced when strategic and systems thinking is applied. Ender Wiggins demonstrates that by thinking as his enemy would he is able to outsmart his opponents. He uses strategy rather than tactics keeping the end goal in mind. Have you seen…
