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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. When McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Operating-cost productivity metrics might include the component costs for building an automobile or delivering a package, the rates of rework, and so forth. Kaplan and Norton point out that customer satisfaction, internal business processes, learning, and revenue growth are important drivers of long-term performance. About the Authors.

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Grandiose, Narcissistic, Impulsive E-Personalities — and What They Might Do to the Economy

Harvard Business Review

My research shows that, online, we take on new character traits that add up to a full-fledged "e-personality" — a disinhibited way of behaving and transacting that can be very different from how we have always operated. Norton & Company, 2011).

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How Self-Service Kiosks Are Changing Customer Behavior

Harvard Business Review

I talked with Ryan Buell , an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, who studies the intersection of operations and customer behavior. Cinemark theater’s new self-service kiosks have “had concession spending per person climb for 32 straight quarters.” ” So why the uptick?

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

and Canada and more than 7 million vehicles a year traverse the Ambassador bridge, according to the Public Border Operators Assn. 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.

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