Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The 2009/2010 Towers Watson (formerly Watson Wyatt) communications study found that companies that are highly effective communicators had 47% higher total returns to shareholders over the last five years compared with firms that are the least effective communicators. Motivational posters and a simple pat on the back just don't cut it.)

ROI 141

ROI Definition Price Operations 141

Six Disciplines

APRIL 5, 2011

Companies today are not effectively executing against strategy and the business leaders know it, with 80 percent recognizing that they are "not doing their best" to communicate strategy through the organization, let alone execute against it, according to new 2010 research commissioned by SuccessFactors, Inc. and Accenture.

Strategy 98

Strategy Company System Execution 98

Six Disciplines

MAY 18, 2011

Results from the survey: 82% of attendees indicated that their leadership development budgets either increased (42%) or stayed the same (39%) from 2010 to 2011, with only 18% indicating that their budgets had decreased.

Execution 101

Execution Skills Strategy Succession 101