Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

That thought kept coming back to me as I read John Taft's new book Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street. Taft is CEO of RBC Wealth Management-U.S. the brokerage firm formerly known as Dain Rauscher) and spent 2011 as chairman of the main securities-industry trade group, SIFMA. Got all that?

Metrics 12

Metrics Open-book Long-term Comparison 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Since the mandate of the board is to represent shareholders’ interests, shareholder votes stand out as a natural performance metric.

Company 8

Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 8

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

Malcolm Gladwell noted in his book The Tipping Point that religions spread not by the force of their charismatic founders, but by the emotional zeal of its followers that spend their days marinating in the dogma. Each year since 2011, the company unveils an Annual Report. the “right hook”).

Brand 14

Brand How To Franchising Merchandising 14

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. Sometimes as managers we get too caught up in the big picture and forget to focus on the details. When’s the book coming out? Popularity: 70% [ ?

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

All too often I see new supervisors struggling mightily with the idea of actually “managing&# a staff – setting priorities, communicating the company vision, motivating, holding people accountable, and delivering the necessary coaching and corrections. It just can’t all be nuts and bolts, and numbers and metrics.

Team 261

Team Training Blog Skills 261

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. This manpower should consist of teams built around the innovators themselves to help with things like marketing, change management and investment appraisal.

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 125

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 84

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

population growth between 2011 and 2050. Here are three steps — based on both my academic research and my consulting work — that managers can take to increase discussion, decrease fear of saying the “wrong thing,” and avoid sidestepping conflict: 1. Embrace and reframe conflict.

Management 8

Management Diversity Self-aware Long-term 8

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

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