The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation. Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. For all of its numerous flaws, the company was at one point valued at nearly $50 billion. Engines of creation.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 109

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2015

Commitment Questions: Does your CEO clearly articulate what he/she wants the company to become for customers and constantly reinforce and drive the company in that direction? Make the Customer Leadership Executive an Officer of the Company Ensure that the CCO is at a peer level of the leaders of the organization.

CEO 120

CEO Succession Customer Loyalty Tactics 120

Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The death of the traditional salesman has been greatly exaggerated,” heralded a recent column in The Economist (October 22, 2011). Then when a VP of sales says: “Your grad left our company after a year,” I have to give him the bad news — “You didn’t engage your new employee the way she expected.”. She wonders: Is it worth it?

Management 187

Management Media Learning-by-Doing Fashion 187

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. The next thing the company knew, it couldn’t raise prices anymore, and market share kept falling.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

By 1998, they had incorporated Google, coming up with a company name that suggested the audacity of their ambition. And they came up with an informal company motto to signal their benign intent: "Don't be evil." Today, Google reaches billions of pages of content. . They settled on an unusual power-sharing arrangement. Google Inc.

Advertising 84

Advertising Outsourcing Engineering Information Technology 84

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching - Is Now Open for Enrollment for 2011. Recent 2010 research* confirms what we know to be our biggest challenges as executives: 52% of executives don’t feel their company’s strategy will lead to success. 64% agree that their company has too many conflicting priorities.

Executive Coaching 101

Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip. In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information.

Blog 419

Blog Reputation Participative Brand 419

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 28, 2010

So as I write these blog posts and create program content and talk with people about the objectives, outcomes, profit creation, ideation, metrics, etc… FUN is an acceptable criteria that can be evaluated and placed into the mix. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Design by 12GrainStudio Planning, Delegation, Accountability + FUN!

Delegation 107

Delegation Planning Team Building Follow-up 107

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc., but the reality is that most companies absolutely miss the boat in harnessing the true power of CRM which is improving the customer experience.

Blog 273

Blog CRM Management Brand 273

Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Mark Vickers , i4 cp Trendwatcher : High Performers Purge the Unproductive - In its most recent installment of  Trendwatcher , the i4cp takes examines a particularly telling HR metric: time to full productivity.  However, identifying and establishing a relationship with a top notch mentor can be a real challenge for some.

Blog 113

Blog Human Resources Talent Management Mentor 113

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Ask yourself this question…Who is more loyal; an employee who has been with the company a long time but is an under-performer, or a less tenured employee who always goes the extra mile and consistently exceeds expectations? the company is not leveraging its true talent base. I want metrics that mirror experience.

Loyalty 419

Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. Your cannot successfully manage someone's company brand without knowing how to manage your own brand. Thanks Oarabile nobilify Interesting post Mike.

Brand 325

Brand Brand Management Blog Media 325

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2011

why companies need to focus on one primary customer. the importance in choosing which among shareholders, customers, or employees are most important to the company’s success. how executives should decide which few metrics to focus on. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. All rights reserved.

Strategy 50

Strategy Simon Stress Metrics 50

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 23, 2010

The Institute for Corporate Productivity (I4CP) : Talent Management Metrics Get an "F" - Talent management has been all the rage in human resource management in recent years.  At the heart of this performance disparity, I4CP suggests, may be the way organizations measure (or fail to measure) employee performance.

Blog 100

Blog Human Resources Talent Management Human Capital 100

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

What should be jumping off the page here is that based upon the above referenced survey only two percent of the companies surveyed appear to utilize a value based hiring methodology. Moreover, one might conclude that 98% of these companies have the wrong people doing the hiring.

Blog 286

Blog Survey Talent Management Brand 286

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I think many in leadership get to choose the metric they use to measure, and they seem to always choose the one that makes them look good. That said, your observation about the need to measure the "right" metrics is an astute one. Thank you for sharing this freely. link] davidburkus Great exam. Kavita Great article.

Blog 310

Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 310

Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 11, 2010

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Blog 100

Blog Welch Human Resources Taylorism 100

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing.   It’s an organizing framework for the company.  The article, “G.E.   The performance of G.E.

Leadership 178

Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 15, 2011

During hard times companies often cut back on marketing budgets. Having meetings to discuss methodology and the types of metrics the other executives are looking for, such as what the VP of Sales thinks of as a "qualified lead," will align your role with theirs. To participate in the 2011 Thinkers 50, visit [link].

Advice 107

Advice Execution Marketing Prahalad 107

QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2010

Adding up sales won’t tell us what kind of a company we really have. The value of the current economic upheaval is that it’s a ripe opportunity for us to evaluate if, with all these various metrics, we’re truly getting the full picture of what’s really going on. It is also a great validation of your thoughts.

Quality 117

Quality Compliance Metrics Blog 117

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&#

Blog 403

Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 403

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read! Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal.

Blog 396

Blog Succession Influence Brand 396

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

StrategyDriven Contributors like Beyond Performance because it provides a method for achieving organizational excellence that is founded on the real-world performance of top companies. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Use of organizational characteristic models and definition tables further enhances this clarity.

Competitive Advantage 50

Competitive Advantage Resources Organization Price 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman provide the tools for focusing on work that creates real value for customers, including: How to get people to move from ‘worm’s-eye view’ of thier jobs to a ‘bird’s-eye view’ – to understand what the company really does and the role they have in achieving results.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

Blog 409

Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 409

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If you incorporate the following metrics into your decisioning framework you will minimize the chances of making a bad decision: Perform a Situation Analysis : What is motivating the need for a decision? What would happen if no decision is made?

Blog 396

Blog Analysis CEO Brand 396

The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Here are six reason why you want your company to be like the Giants: They are winners. Everyone loves to be part of a winning company, and the Giants just won the world series for the second time in three years. In spite of 2011, the Giants were back this year. They had bad seasons in 2011. Resilient – see #1.

Ethics 39

Ethics Metrics Loyalty Course 39

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building basics are often overlooked by ineffective leaders or unproductive companies. I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams.

Consensus 333

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Institutional investors often are critical of CEOs’ influence over boards and have made efforts to help companies improve their governance. Our intent is to demonstrate how a machine-learning model could potentially help investors by helping companies select better directors. corporations between 2000 and 2011.

Company 9

Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 9

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Practical and well-tested, Front Runners : Lap Your Competition With 10 Game-Changing Strategies For Total Business Transformation shares author Mahesh Rao’s 10 strategic steps successfully implemented by numerous executives of Fortune 100 companies during the last decade. Observe and Speculate. These are some of the questions you’ll pursue.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

However, although there aren’t any dominant players, there are social network companies seeking to stake out “high-quality” territory. Similarly, Facebook doesn’t specialize in purveying journalism, even though almost every news company posts articles on Facebook.

Media 10

Media Quality Metrics Long-term 10

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

you need to establish your own guardrails so you do not drive your company or project into the weeds. Establish Guardrails I worked in several large companies during my corporate career, and I can’t tell you the number of pet projects that became my pet peeves. In other words, these projects had no guardrails. All rights reserved.

Project 50

Project Wilde Entrepreneur Goal 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let the attacks begin – I’ll publish any comments that are civil… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] MAPping Company Success [.] While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics.

Diversity 296

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. The metric was an attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on what are extremely disconcerting profitability numbers for the company.

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

It is how some investors justify putting sky-high valuations on companies that are growing, but not yet making any money. On the other hand, there's Groupon, once lauded as the " fastest-growing company ever." Its stock price peaked weeks after the company went public in 2011 and is down about 80% since. Predictability.

Quality 10

Quality Metrics Diversity Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Reeling from the growing pains of a $475 million merger with Nortel, the business communications company faced lingering customer disillusionment and falling profits. It takes a major cultural shift in the company.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Metrics Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

That is perhaps the most frequent question I’ve received since 2011 when GlaxoSmithKline changed the link between the bonus pay of our pharmaceutical sales professionals in the United States and the numbers of prescription sold for a particular medicine. Our employees quickly recognized that this change aligned with our values.

Incentives 13

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Health Care Metrics 13