Developing and Implementing a Winning Business Strategy: Insights from Leadershipand Innovation Experts

Creating and applying a successful business strategy is crucial for long-term growth and success. To optimize a strategy for results, it is important to involve a diverse group of leaders who bring unique perspectives to the table, embrace innovation and execute the strategy with discipline, focus and alignment. In this article, we will explore insights from three experts in leadership, innovation and strategy implementation: Ron Price, Dr. Evans Baiya and Dr. Timothy Waema. 

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153. Optimizing Strategy Stage 7: Strategic Evaluation and Learning

Host Dale Dixon and two of the authors of the book “Optimizing Strategy for Results” wrap up their series on the 7 Stages of Strategy with Strategic Evaluation and Learning. Dr. Evans Baiya and Professor Timothy Waema explain that the continuous process of strategy doesn’t always blatantly show how to get the results you are looking for. They outline next steps if you find a mistake in your strategy (even in past stages), and how clear data, documentation, communication, and evaluation are critical on the path to long-term strategic success.

Learn more about the 7 Stages of Strategy at optimizingstrategyforresults.com and purchase your copy of the book here.

Using Gross National Happiness Tools to Find Fulfillment at Work

I tend to view things in a positive way and as a new month unfolds, I get excited about the potential. Recently I started reading a book my niece sent me by Tho Ha Vinn, called A Culture of Happiness. To be honest I hadn’t really planned on reading as I thought it was about being an optimist and having a “just do it” attitude. There is nothing wrong with that, but those books don’t resonate with me.

Out of respect for my niece, I committed to reading it.  As I read, the concepts felt familiar and my reading picked up. The book talks about how to apply the framework of Gross National Happiness (GNH), which is a way to measure happiness. Lately, happiness at work has become a topic, particularly when related to mental health.Read More

150. Optimizing Strategy Stage 4: Making Strategic Decisions

Two of the authors of Optimizing Strategy for Results: A Structured Approach to Make Your Business Come Alive continue their conversation on the 7 Stages of Strategy with host Dale Dixon. Dr. Evans Baiya and Professor Timothy Waema discuss key outcomes of Stage 4: Making Strategic Decisions, specific tools your organization can use for evaluation and prioritization, and the importance of keeping a strategic—rather than a tactical—mindset in this stage. As mentioned in the beginning of this series, people are at the center of success in this stage and they emphasize the importance of communication and commitment from stakeholders at all levels.

Learn more about the 7 Stages of Strategy at optimizingstrategyforresults.com and purchase your copy of the book here.

 

Ideation is the Key to Successful Futuristic Thinking

From The Complete Leader Podcast Episode 84

If you want to be a futuristic thinker, you also need to be an ideator.

In my work with The Innovator’s Advantage, Dr. Evans Baiya and I guide teams and organizations through the innovation process. It’s essentially a blueprint for futuristic thinking, to take an idea and move it through this process to create something of new value. And we’ve often found that one of the greatest roadblocks to success is in a team’s ability to create new ideas.

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150. Optimizing Strategy Stage 4: Making Strategic Decisions

Two of the authors of “Optimizing Strategy for Results: A Structured Approach to Make Your Business Come Alive” continue their conversation on the 7 Stages of Strategy with host Dale Dixon. Dr. Evans Baiya and Professor Timothy Waema discuss key outcomes of Stage 4: Making Strategic Decisions, specific tools your organization can use for evaluation and prioritization, and the importance of keeping a strategic—rather than a tactical—mindset in this stage. As mentioned in the beginning of this series, people are at the center of success in this stage and they emphasize the importance of communication and commitment from stakeholders at all levels.

Learn more about the 7 Stages of Strategy at optimizingstrategyforresults.com and purchase your copy of the book here.

 

Optimizing Strategy Stage 3: Creative Strategic Thinking

Host Dale Dixon interviews two of the three authors of the book, Optimizing Strategy for Results, Ron Price and Timothy Mwololo Waema, PhD. Stage 3 of Optimizing Strategy ushers us into a new phase, Creating Strategic Options. Leaders can make great decisions by creating a flourishing list of options that define possible directions for the future. The authors discuss how to take advantage of current strengths and seize the best opportunities in the external environment by taking a systematic approach to creativity.

Click here to order your copy of Optimizing Strategy for Results!

 

149. Optimizing Strategy Stage 3: Creative Strategic Thinking

Host Dale Dixon interviews two of the three authors of the book, Optimizing Strategy for Results, Ron Price and Timothy Mwololo Waema, PhD. Stage 3 of Optimizing Strategy ushers us into a new phase, Creating Strategic Options. Leaders can make great decisions by creating a flourishing list of options that define possible directions for the future. The authors discuss how to take advantage of current strengths and seize the best opportunities in the external environment by taking a systematic approach to creativity.

Click here to order your copy of Optimizing Strategy for Results!

 

148. Optimizing Strategy Stage 2: Building Strategic Intelligence

Host Dale Dixon interviews two of the three authors of the book “Optimizing Strategy for Results,” Ron Price and Timothy Mwololo Waema, PhD. The authors discuss their unique approach to building Strategic Intelligence into strategy. Extracted from the concept of Emotional Intelligence, Strategic Intelligence encompasses components of internal and external factors that measure how well leaders within a company know themselves, their customers, and the environment they operate within. The authors also identify tools to help organizations be successful in this stage.

Order your copy of Optimizing Strategy for Results here.

Optimizing Strategy Stage 2: Building Strategic Intelligence

Host Dale Dixon interviews two of the three authors of the book “Optimizing Strategy for Results,” Ron Price and Timothy Mwololo Waema, PhD. The authors discuss their unique approach to building Strategic Intelligence into strategy. Extracted from the concept of Emotional Intelligence, Strategic Intelligence encompasses components of internal and external factors that measure how well leaders within a company know themselves, their customers, and the environment they operate within. The authors also identify tools to help organizations be successful in this stage.

Order your copy of Optimizing Strategy for Results here.

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