StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 24 – The Influence of Personal Alignment on Organizational Performance

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StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Episode 24 – The Influence of Personal Alignment on Organizational Performance examines three personal alignment mechanisms and their impact on an organization’s overall performance. During our discussion, Tony Simons, author of The Integrity Dividend and Associate Professor at Cornell University where he teaches organizational behavior, negotiation, and leadership, shares with us his insights regarding:

  • authenticity, the alignment between an individual’s inner and outer self
  • behavioral integrity, the alignment between an individual’s words and actions
  • organizational alignment, the alignment between an individual’s actions and organizational goals

Additional Information

Complimenting the tremendous insights Tony shares in the podcast and his book, The Integrity Dividend, are the additional materials and resources found on his website, Integrity Dividend (www.IntegrityDividend.com). Tony’s book, The Integrity Dividend, can be purchased by clicking here.

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About the Author

Tony Simons, author of The Integrity Dividend, is an Associate Professor at Cornell University where he teaches organizational behavior, negotiation, and leadership. Tony is also a business consultant and speaker who focuses on trust in leaders, executive team member trust, and trust in supply chain relationships. To read Tony’s full biography, click here.
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StrategyDriven Strategic Planning Best Practice Article

Strategic Planning Best Practice 11 – One Priority List

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The cliche ‘if everything is a priority, nothing is‘ couldn’t describe a more damaging situation than when it occurs pervasively throughout an organization. All too often, organizations and their divisions, departments, and workgroups work from priority lists that have neither been reconciled nor aligned. Subsequently, employees pursue either those items of greatest interest to them or to their supervisors; fragmenting the effort applied to the achievement mission goals.

Implementing the concept of a single priority list eliminates the divisiveness that can exist between an organization’s various business units and their efforts toward achieving mission goals. A key outcome of the strategic planning process, priority lists from across the organization should be reconciled and consolidated into those few items that support, in the most value-adding way, the accomplishment of mission goals. This one priority list is then codified in the form of the organization’s business plan. All other priority lists, whether business unit business plans or initiative and task lists, should directly correlate to and support execution of this master plan; being fully aligned with it and existing to translate the organization’s business plan into actionable work to be performed by members of the organization.

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StrategyDriven Podcast | The Integrity Dividend | Tony Simons

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 4b – An Interview with Tony Simons, author of The Integrity Dividend: Leading by the Power of Your Word, part 2 of 2

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StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag posts on the StrategyDriven website.

Special Edition 4b – An Interview with Tony Simons, author of The Integrity Dividend: Leading by the Power of Your Word, part 2 of 2 continues our exploration of the concept of behavioral integrity; the perceived pattern of alignment between a manager’s words and deeds. During our discussion, Tony Simons, author of The Integrity Dividend and Associate Professor at Cornell University where he teaches organizational behavior, negotiation, and leadership, shares with us his insights regarding:

  • the manager’s dilemma, where managers find themselves in a position of having to promote a senior’s position that is seemingly misaligned with the organization’s and/or their personal values
  • the impact of generational differences on realization of the integrity dividend
  • the magnitude of the impact and how to recover from a perceived misalignment between a manager’s words and deeds

Additional Information

Complimenting the tremendous insights Tony shares in The Integrity Dividend and this special edition podcast, are the additional Integrity Dividend materials and resources found on his website, Integrity Dividend (www.IntegrityDividend.com). Tony’s book, The Integrity Dividend, can be purchased by clicking here.

About the Author

StrategyDriven Expert Contributor | Tony SimonsTony Simons, author of The Integrity Dividend, is an Associate Professor at Cornell University where he teaches organizational behavior, negotiation, and leadership. Tony is also a business consultant and speaker who focuses on trust in leaders, executive team member trust, and trust in supply chain relationships. To read Tony’s full biography, click here.
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