Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. The right metrics will serve you in enormously useful ways. Failing to measure what matters.

Team 50

Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 25, 2010

All the measurements and the metrics that we hold each other accountable to are very powerful forces, and quite necessary ones. I use our customer satisfaction metric, the Net Promoter Score. Those are the clients/customers who keep the doors open in a good many establishments and online services.

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Letter Metrics Blog Open-book 254

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Profitability isn’t a useful metric. ” In his book, Start with Why , Simon Sinek says that purpose should provide direction when deciding a company’s future: “Instead of asking, ‘WHAT should we do to compete? Perhaps the source of the problem is that it’s not clear when a brand should be euthanized.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Stay self aware! You don’t have to be a zen master, but it’s important to stay centered, calm, open minded, receptive, and understanding. When’s the book coming out? Answer these questions NOW , take whatever corrective action is necessary, and give your team a better chance for success. Popularity: 70% [ ?

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

No doubt many would argue that is indeed the case, and will point to the way technologies from the smartphone to CRISPR are opening up new ways of living and working. The problem is, these technologies don’t appear to be making a difference to productivity figures, or subsequently the wages and wellbeing of people.

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 125

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

It just can’t all be nuts and bolts, and numbers and metrics. Taking the top management once every year to a training program and then hoping for the best does not qualify as leadership development for me. This is where awareness of the benefits leadership skills provide comes in.

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Team Training Blog Skills 261

QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2010

— Quantitative: Lets go for quality certification which will open us doors to more number of customers. 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?&#. — Quantitative: I have 6000+ followers on Twitter.

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Compliance Quality Metrics Blog 82

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As Darrell Rigby argued in a 2011 HBR article , every 50 years the retail industry goes through a major disruption. Cash registers were plentiful and easy to find, and success was measured with metrics like sales per square foot and average size of transaction. In their 2005 book, W. Nordstrom is now testing a similar concept.

Retail 9

Retail Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

population growth between 2011 and 2050. Successful customized training sessions that are embedded and sustained over time involve cohort-based experiences, immersion opportunities, coaching, book clubs, and small study groups that convene for at least a quarter or, at best, a year or longer.

Management 8

Management Diversity Self-aware Long-term 8

The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

While there are many classic leadership books that are still relevant today – like Good to Great and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and a flooded market of other business books , I wanted to share …. My Top 12 Favorite, Hidden Book Gems that are a “must read” for every leader for 2014. I love this book!

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Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 113

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In our Digital Evolution Index (DEI), we place them in the “digital south” which means the full deployment and adoption of online systems is still in development. Currently, China is ahead on the major economic metrics: to add as much to its GDP as China will in 2018, India would need to grow by 40%.

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Airlines Technology Objective Policies 10