N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. I particularly liked: "Consensus isn't the goal. ” Great post Mike – it is obvious you have spent a lot of time thing about and work with top teams! Good input is. Good input is."

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. Interesting points about the metrics involved – good feedback for women leaderhsip bloggers. Personally, I am not affronted.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 6, 2017

Rather than focusing on sales goals or credit, they would measure system inputs — number of new leads, number of opportunities, etc., — trying to reach certain metrics, and then all share in the results. Of the HVAC contractor’s 170 employees, pay changed for about 20 people, but Guy pitched the idea first to his Cincinnati office.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Monte Carlo simulations on goal attainment. Spanish flu).

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Monte Carlo simulations on goal attainment. Spanish flu).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

You have annual quotas, quarterly goals, and increasing competition. But I’ve learned key lessons to help managers turn lofty goals — such as making learning and development a central pillar of the workday — into real actions that mitigate damage to, and even help strengthen, the bottom line. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

According to a 2008 survey , the vast majority of professionals (94%) worked 50 hours or more a week, and almost half worked more than 65 hours a week. To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked. We began measuring it and setting goals for reducing it.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. Most companies get metrics all wrong. They allow each department to determine what it wants to measure.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

As one industry insider told us, “I am in the business of making money, I don’t care who you are, as long as you can help me in that goal.” exchange over a six-year period (2008 to 2013). We analyzed 3,520 recommendations by 1,550 recommenders of buy and short-sell recommendations for stocks listed on a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

One of the key metrics in understanding whether your company is retaining customers is customer churn rate. Customer churn rate is a metric that measures the percentage of customers who end their relationship with a company in a particular period,” says Avery. The bottom line: keeping the right customers is valuable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. Given that companies are putting more than $14 billion a year into charitable causes, measuring results and ensuring real social impact should be important goals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

He's also convinced that businesses' ability to shove costs onto society ( externalities ) is rapidly declining, that environmental, social, and corporate governance ( ESG ) metrics are here to stay, and that Canada's highly concentrated banking system is safer and better-regulated than ours. Got all that? In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

And yet, many of those ardent reformers are furiously running in place because they do not have the management system to support their goals. The system encourages certain behaviors, such as top-down bureaucracies and seeking whom to blame for problems or unmet goals instead of how to fix or achieve them. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great. Of course, the task of a top manager is not a routine one.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Consider: The most common metrics for evaluating social media are likes, tweets, reviews, and click-through-rates (CTRs) for online ads — not cause-and-effect links between the medium and market results. With new media, therefore, great expectations are common and missing the goal is understandable: it takes practice and learning.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

MD Anderson Cancer Center established its version of a value management office, the Institute for Cancer Care Innovation (ICCI) in 2008 with Thomas Feeley, a senior anesthesiologist and a coauthor of this article, as its head. One example is in the area of patient-reported outcomes.

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Whether manufacturing or knowledge industry, primary goal of business is to generate value. It can be seen when it happens, but cannot be predicted/confirmed via a metric. Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. I hope that clarifies the point.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, I have sensed from many leaders that they want to do a better job of leading in accordance with their personal values.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

With that goal, we thought carefully about each of our clinical service lines: Are we the best at this service line? Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

In fact, much evidence suggests that the market often gets it very wrong in the short term — with the most telling example being the 2008 financial crash itself. There can be no contradiction, or so the theory goes. This is the way both to achieve higher returns and make the market more efficient.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the other hand, the metrics of 21st century female professional and economic empowerment have become a tide. Rather than stigmatize the characteristic emotional biologies of one gender or the other, it should be the goal of any person or organization to allow all emotion at work, in all of its gendered nuances, its full due.

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QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2010

Quantitative: My goal is to have 500+ LinkedIn connections by end of February. By the second day I had to get away from these folks because the conversations kept coming back to “how am I ever going to be able to meet my metrics?&#. I went back to my action plans and further tweaked the goals. Have you heard them before?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

The goal of this group is to bring awareness, resources, and support to those impacted by a disability. There’s a process by which HR professionals identify behaviors that lead to a high-performance culture and link those behaviors to key performance metrics. One of our newest BRGs is BeAdept. Mexico and Canada.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

According to the Market Research Society (MRS) , spending on online research increased 15 percent from 2008 to 2012. Unfortunately, there exists no single, magic-bullet metric that satisfies these requirements for every community. How can we link the work we do in the community back to our goals?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Metrics cannot be focused on campaign-specific goals such as reach and conversion. Above all, the goal cannot be one-time interaction, it should be meaningful long-term engagement and ideally opportunities for what Seth Godin, back in 2008, called “ Permission Marketing.” ” Data.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

By 2008 we had hit $1 billion in gross merchandise sales. Amazon has always described its goal as being the most customer-centric company in the world, but its approach is more high-tech than ours. Amazon has always described its goal as being the most customer-centric company in the world, but its approach is more high-tech than ours.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

It’s an inside-out process and CRM systems are there to provide data about progression (or not) through that company’s funnel steps — the famous “pipeline” metrics that dominate so much talk about sales. But Gartner research (see here and here ) indicates a very different contemporary buying reality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession. job market has taken since 2008, this is understandable. If your goal is reaching the top, the path nowadays is anything but straight and narrow. Given the beating the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In 2008, as the CEO of a software company that had just missed its target for the second quarter in a row, I was so intent on hitting our fourth-quarter revenue number of $8 million — and so scared for my job — that I promised the company I would get a tattoo of the number somewhere on my body if we hit it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The goal is to figure out which persuadable voters to spend energy — and dollars — on, in the hope of moving the dial just slightly in their favor. What are some of the key differences are between Obama's 2008 campaign and what you're seeing in this one? It's a world where hundredths of a percentage point matter.

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