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Recommended Resource – Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage

Strategy Driven

Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage. Enough detail is provided so that the reader can create performance metrics to measure for the existence of enabling organizational characteristics and performance improvement when the journey for excellence is undertaken. About the Reference.

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Drinking the Talent Kool-Aid | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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Complimentary Resource – Leveraging the Power of Social Media

Strategy Driven

How can you harness the total power of social media with Return-on-Investment (ROI) metrics that satisfy your CEO? Solutions,&# “Harvest Social Knowledge for Customer Service,&# and learn how “Social CRM Turns Customers into Competitive Advantage.&#. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan.

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3 Practices to Protect Your People from Toxic Stress and Burnout

Michael Lee Stallard

Organizations with greater connection experience five benefits that add up to a powerful source of competitive advantage: superior cognitive and physical performance of employees, higher employee engagement, tighter employee alignment with organizational goals, better communication that helps improve decision-making, and.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. This is what we call a business’s health , and related metrics explain how financial results were achieved and provide causal insights into future performance potential.

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The Top 10 HBR Blog Posts of 2010

Harvard Business Review

In that spirit, we offer our 10 most popular posts of 2010, as measured by that most inarguable of website metrics, pageviews: 12 Things Good Bosses Believe. Tony Schwartz makes the case for naps as competitive advantage. Six Social Media Trends for 2011. Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything.

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