Experienced or Over the Hill

Perspective How often do older employees become stereotyped by their younger peers and "superiors" as unproductive, out of step, forgetful, frail, overpaid, lacking knowledge of technology, and/or unsatisfied (perhaps this list could be expanded but you get the point and I am becoming angry)? What value could be produced with thirty or forty years of …

Talent Gap Awareness

Talent Management by M.  Anthony Sacco of Stratalyne A lot of organizations spend time and money on the nuts and bolts of talent management but end up with a strategically weak pool of talent. What I mean by "strategically weak" is that these organizations hire and fire based upon historic performance profiles without regard to …

What is your Goal?

by M. Anthony Sacco for Stratalyne In his classic work, The Goal, Eli Goldratt established himself as not only an expert on solving problems in the manufacturing environment but established himself as a problem solver in a much more general sense. He is well known from this work as one who developed the model used …

Managerial Musings

by M Anthony Sacco What makes you … a great "manager"? Bing defines it like this: NOUN - a person responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company or similar organization. The first characteristic that stands out, that shouts to me, in this definition is the word "responsible".  I agree with the …

Leadership Traits – Intuition

By: M. A. Sacco of Stratalyne Business Solutions LLC  If there were one trait of a great leader that is underestimated for its value, I think it would be the ability to call and act upon intuition.  My reasoning about this, stems from a financial concept, as well as, a human capital development frame of …

Legacy & Leadership

Legacy can be a test of leadership. By M. Anthony Sacco (Stratalyne Business Solutions LLC) In the final chapter of John C. Maxwell’s book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, as seems appropriate, is a keystone concept.  In it, he addresses the “Law of Legacy” or, as some would call it, “succession”.  At the outset, …

Talent Gap Awareness

Talent Management by M.  Anthony Sacco of Stratalyne A lot of organizations spend time and money on the nuts and bolts of talent management but end up with a strategically weak pool of talent. What I mean by "strategically weak" is that these organizations hire and fire based upon historic performance profiles without regard to …

Employee Retention Surprise

by M. Anthony Sacco Stratalyne Business Solutions LLC The first year is more important. The (October, 2015) Harvard Business Review published a short article (on page 34) entitled "Talent Quitting Time" about retention. The article is based upon a statistical study done during the first half of 2015 ("Recruiter Sentiment Study") that investigated employee turnover …

Innovation Perspectives

Triggers of innovation Innovation can be triggered from various internal and external sources. In the business modeling book, Business Model Generation (Osterwalder & Pigneur, Wiley, 2010, 138-139) these triggers are described as "Resource-Driven", "Offer-Driven", "Customer-Driven", "Finance-Driven", and "Multiple-Epicenter Driven".  Since innovation is one key driver of a successful business and a key to the strategic …

You Affect Organizational Culture

Control Over Culture An Organizational Commentary by M.Anthony Sacco Anaïs Nin (1903 – 1977) was an essayist and memoirist born and raised in France though her parents were not French but were Cuban. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba, but lived most of her life in the United States. She became an established …