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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2023

Leading Blog

Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of time.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

This framework shares some elements with the balanced scorecard concept that was introduced in a seminal 1992 Harvard Business Review article, The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance , by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. Copyright (c) 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. About the Authors.

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How Self-Service Kiosks Are Changing Customer Behavior

Harvard Business Review

In addition to all of this, there is some research from 2011 showing that a seven second reduction in service times in fast food restaurants can increase the company’s market share by 1% to 3%. And they found that 20% of customers who didn’t initially order a drink would buy one when it was offered. You feel important.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

The institutions of modern developed societies, whether governments or companies, are not prepared for this social power. 1 national infrastructure priority," says Roy Norton, the nation's consul general in Detroit. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, September 19, 2011 and Forbes, September 26, 2011. This is Canada's No.

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