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. Challenge group planning and maximize resources Another Goal Setting & Action Planning Method.

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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., Their goal is often what can the customer do for them versus what they can do for the customer. Successful organizations understand and embrace this.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. I particularly liked: "Consensus isn't the goal. ” Great post Mike – it is obvious you have spent a lot of time thing about and work with top teams! Good input is. Good input is."

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), Replicating your successes to bring your product to the masses. But it’s not a realistic way to go about achieving your goals because you will always come upon unexpected obstacles in the road.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The One Question Every Successful Leader Must Answer (Even Before It Is Asked) by Starbucker on February 8, 2010 The supervisor is frustrated – in his mind, he has done everything right to manage his team to a successful outcome.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. Most companies get metrics all wrong. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. They allow each department to determine what it wants to measure. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Win the hearts and minds of individuals, so they share and work toward your organization’s goals. How clear are you about the criteria for success? Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The down-to-earth lessons found in Front Runners can be applied to a wide range of corporate, academic, and social arenas.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. Interesting points about the metrics involved – good feedback for women leaderhsip bloggers. Personally, I am not affronted.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Why do so many talented, well-led teams, enterprises, and organizations – many of them with clear, reasonable goals – fail to win victories that should have been easily within their grasps? Setting impossible goals. The right metrics will serve you in enormously useful ways. In other words, it’s a fancy way to lose.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. The more people develop leadership and followership skills, the more successful they will be. Followers Get Things Done Better followership often begets better leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Avaya’s 2011 Net Promoter Score (NPS) was in the 20s (on a scale of -100 to +100), suggesting that it would have a hard time keeping the customers it had, let alone grow on word of mouth. Tie Your Goals to Hard Numbers.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 7, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Don’t Be A Victim of Success (Keep Climbing) by Starbucker on March 7, 2010 You set a goal, and with a lot of hard work, you hit it. You’ve achieved success. Standing still is akin to going backwards.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2020

The goal for every organization is, of course, mission accomplishment. While there are many roads to get there, leaders who have good working relationships with their employees get there with less drama, staff turnover, lower cost in labor and material, among other metrics, compared with leaders who lack these relationships. [1]

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

the brokerage firm formerly known as Dain Rauscher) and spent 2011 as chairman of the main securities-industry trade group, SIFMA. So maybe the goal shouldn't be to come up with a simple rule like Friedman's, but to show why Friedman's rule isn't nearly as simple as it sounds. Taft is CEO of RBC Wealth Management-U.S. Got all that?

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. Key Company-Wide Metrics. Goals are set for these metrics, and rewards are given for hitting and/or exceeding them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. The women who make it to leadership roles perform better than their male peers , by several metrics. We do need more successful female women entrepreneurs – but not at the expense of more great female corporate executives. rose by 68 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Once you know that zero is the goal, you will realize that achieving it is unlikely in your current system. Define the goal. There should be a balance of safety and quality metrics as well as financial. It is critically important to define what success looks like. Any model cell should address a business problem.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“I wanted to learn: What are their goals? With Jeff Wald, the president and COO, an analytic thinker, she started with the metrics. ” In 2011, when Gallegos first started at Jitterbit, the company had about 50 customers. ” “I went in with a listening agenda,” she explains. What is important to them?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. Yet, if scaling impact is the goal, these skills are essential. Conclusion?

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. I thought, “ how in the world could I possibly summarize all that we did to be successful in 30 seconds ?&# What’s the overarching goal?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Companies that hold on to the old-school, singular view of limiting their responsibilities to making a profit will not only discover it is a shallow goal but an unsustainable one. This program, Create Jobs for USA , will begin November 1, 2011. Values increasingly drive consumer and employee loyalties.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. Barbara @wiredprworks Del Putnam January 5, 2010 at 11:00 am Thanks for sharing this, Terry I love #8.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

However, much of our success is due to our highly unusual compensation strategy that motivates everybody in the business to help the company grow. Each day the employees get a report on how how far we are toward that revenue goal. Do we need another programmer to meet a critical goal? How have we accomplished it?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. They’ve lived through tumultuous times before and the status quo has always returned.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

How many views make a YouTube video a success? That's how many views a video our organization, DoSomething.org, posted in 2011 got. Suddenly, it was clear that for DoSomething.org, views did not equal success. We were concerned with the wrong metric. In the case above, success meant donations, not video views.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

What’s optimal for you – with your goals and values – could very well be suboptimal for the next person. Every performance management paradigm, every mission statement, could point to a different definition of success – and therefore to a different way to “optimally” allocate resources.

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Whether manufacturing or knowledge industry, primary goal of business is to generate value. Success is guaranteed. When people buy these important things in, leadership is said to be successful in aligning people. It can be seen when it happens, but cannot be predicted/confirmed via a metric. Ivana Sendecka´s last blog.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Given that other data-sharing efforts have been met with varying degrees of success, we knew that a novel approach was required to truly make progress. We decided to create a direct-to-patient initiative using Collective Impact, a framework for tackling social issues first articulated , in 2011, by John Kania and Mark Kramer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run. Consider China’s Tencent.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

The employment-to-population ratio — the simplest of job-market metrics — shows a sharp drop for men in particular in the last recession. percentage in 2011: 21.9). If your goal is reaching the top, the path nowadays is anything but straight and narrow. This doesn''t mean times are good for male workers.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Tatum discusses the 5 critical success factors for managing, driving and sustaining growth, along with case studies of companies that succeeded or failed during No Man’s Land. Southwest Airline’s Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, described the unconventional leadership that made Southwest an airline industry dynamo.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Copyright 2011. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Be prepared. Columbia University.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

” Although the early merger integration was successful, it ultimately missed key mid- and long-term goals under Fiorina. Many of the mid-level managers and executives I interviewed reported that she pushed them to deliver on metrics that were not grounded in reality or data and were not really achievable.

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