Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Frequently, when I speak at a company with a strong “yes” culture, I ask the employees to close their eyes and raise their hands if they are currently working on a project that they don’t believe will be successful — something they don’t believe will accomplish its goals. Pay attention to warning signs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. ” Metric obsession. But the worst way to achieve a goal can sometimes be to pursue it directly. Tyranny of intermediate goals.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

A few years ago my company started tracking a customer service metric, based on specific customer feedback. When we first started we more or less just “put it out there”, explaining the mechanics of the metric, the way it was compiled and scored, and setting a company goal. Michael Zakem February 12, 2010 at 11:26 am I agree.

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Succession Simon Metrics Tactics 284

Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. Key Company-Wide Metrics. Goals are set for these metrics, and rewards are given for hitting and/or exceeding them.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

In their 2012 book, Transformative HR authors John Boudreau and Ravin Jesuthasan detailed a case study of Ameriprise Financial, a diversified financial services company spun off from American Express in 2005. The quality of data is important, along with the way leaders are educated about the credibility of talent metrics. Compelling.

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Company Human Resources Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. Communicate what the quantitative success metrics look like. Share data points with the team regularly, or better yet, display dashboards that show progress against established goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

” But our goal isn’t simply to minimize the influence of luck; it’s to minimize the chance that bad luck will lead to an unacceptable circumstances, be that starving, divorce, failing to achieve the autonomy you crave, etc. .” If you want to minimize the chance of bad luck, he says, be a dentist.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

To keep costs under control, you’d set goals for reducing it every year. Bush took over American Express’s far-flung service operations in 2005. Leaders kept a tight rein on costs, with goals for reducing average call time, improving customer satisfaction levels, and driving more service volume to the Web.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Instead of setting the goal for three hours of detox every day, try three hours per week. With your boss, for example, agree on a metric (e.g., Then, figure out a simple way to collect data on this metric so you can quickly capture the results of your experiment and inform any further adjustments. You and Your Team.

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Metrics Learning-by-Doing Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The course that I created in 2005, Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), has become one of the most popular elective MBA courses, thanks to my HBS colleagues who are currently teaching it.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. What’s the overarching goal? The “ big, hairy, and audacious &# goal? “Vi&# is Vision. What are our shared values?

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Blog Metrics Learning-by-Doing Handbook 246

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 7, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Don’t Be A Victim of Success (Keep Climbing) by Starbucker on March 7, 2010 You set a goal, and with a lot of hard work, you hit it. You’ve achieved success.

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Succession Learning-by-Doing Career Short-term 160

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

They build teams consisting of individuals who complement one another in a way that ensures consistent performance in line with corporate goals. The mantra embodied herein is “Build grand castles in the air while ensuring that they rest on solid foundations.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

grew by nearly 80% between 2005 and 2012. Broadly speaking, communication is the ability to exchange information, coordination is the ability to work toward a common goal, and culture is a shared set of customs that foster trust and engagement. Why are some organizations reaping benefits but others not? About 94% of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

It’s almost universal practice that the benchmarker chooses one or two organizational goals, then picks a few key metrics (key performance indicators) relevant to those goals, and finally selects several peer groups from a limited set. This makes it a useful case study for our purposes here. Further Reading.

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Benchmarking Comparison Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product. Rule #4: Create a corporate goal with a percent of revenue earmarked to new products.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” The blueprint included the company’s purpose, vision, values, and strategic goals, and fits on a single page.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Toward that end, we produce metrics on a quarterly basis concerning how frequently we saw care issues or improvement opportunities. Technology has been very useful in compensating for human limitations and has been critical in approaching our goal of 0 never events. Nonetheless, patients still suffer unintended harm.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

” Although the early merger integration was successful, it ultimately missed key mid- and long-term goals under Fiorina. Many of the mid-level managers and executives I interviewed reported that she pushed them to deliver on metrics that were not grounded in reality or data and were not really achievable.

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