At Remote DBA Experts, we are constantly optimizing our key service capabilities.  We monitor the maturity and performance of all our key capabilities and ensure our efforts are ongoing to enable the best performance of those capabilities.  In the following series of posts, I will describe our model and approach to optimization. To get started, [...]

As Maximizers, leaders are responsible for getting the most and best out of the human, physical and economic resources under their stewardship.  This is another critical aspect of leadership.  Nothing can kill a business like underutilized assets.  Leaders are responsible to monitor and manage this closely.  They need to place close attention to the maximization [...]

As Actualizers, leaders are responsible for ensuring the execution of the developed strategies and ensuing plans and tasks.  No ideas or strategies will come to fruition without making sure things happen.  Leaders must be vigilant of execution.  They need to make sure they and others follow-through as planned.  Many great ideas fall through the cracks [...]

As Strategizers, leaders are responsible for developing strategies to accomplish what they conceptualized.  Once leaders conceptualize, they need to develop ways to get from ideas to results.  Strategies provide approaches to ensure that a vision becomes a reality or that a product or service idea becomes a reality in order to produce revenue and profits.  Strategizing [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, there are four critical leadership roles: Conceptualizer Strategizer Actualizer Maximizer In this post, I will delve into the first role: Conceptualizer. As Conceptualizers, leaders are responsible for crafting ideas, visions, goals and objectives for their organizations.   They must be creating constantly.  Business is very dynamic and requires constant [...]

In my next blog series, I will explore four key roles that leaders play in business: Conceptualizer Strategizer Actualizer Maximizer When you boil it down, these four roles capture the essence of leadership.  Leaders in all realms of leadership spend a great deal of time doing things that fit one of these four areas: Conceptualizing [...]

Motivation influences how we make decisions.    According to the expectancy theory proposed by Victor Vroom, employees in an organization are the most motivated when they think an effort will result in better performance, and that better performance can lead to rewards they value.  Based on the same theory, Professor Richard W. Scholl of the University [...]

The current unfortunate situation in the Gulf of Mexico has made me very aware of the importance of risk awareness.  Risks are everywhere.  We take them all the time. Sometimes we are not even aware of the risks involved or the consequences those risks entail. Databases are at the heart of today’s corporations.  They make [...]

There is a field of forces that plays into our decisions.  Identifying, visualizing, and analyzing these forces can be a useful exercise for important decisions.  I have devised a form to help you do this easily.  Your intention or the decision you want to make goes in the center box.  The driving forces go in [...]

The human brain is lazy.  It does not like to work very hard.  This is a scientific fact!  Our brain is “programmed” to conserve energy.  This is because it needs to be ready to operate under danger (mostly from the olden days).  Thinking too hard takes energy and uses brain resources that can peg our [...]