July, 2011

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Performance Measurement

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Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

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Are You a Good Fit for Potential Employers?

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Determining if you are a good fit for an employer and vice-versa is not always as hard as it might seem. As I describe in my book Career Mapping : Charting Your Course in the New World of Work , you first need to have decided that you want to work in the industry in which the company does business. Career Mapping : Charting Your Course in the New World of Work by Ginny Clarke.

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Complimentary Resource – 7 Steps to Building Your Keyword List

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7 Steps to Building Your Keyword List. by Optify, Inc. In this white paper Optify lists 7 basic, but essential steps for building your keyword list as the stepping stone for a successful SEO plan. Search engine optimization, or SEO, begins with creating a keyword list of phrase terms that people are actually using to search for your product or service.

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Fire the Slugs! And Other Great, No-Nonsense Ways to Retain Your Best People

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There isn’t an organization anywhere that doesn’t have a problem with some type of personnel turnover problems. Depending on the study you look at, the impact of turnover ranges from three months of salary for a low level employee who leaves to as high as 400 percent of the annual salary of an upper-level person who leaves. No Nonsense Retention : Painless Strategies To Retain Your Best People by Jeff Kortes.

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A Technology Case Study: Implementing What the Customer Wants

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In order for any change to occur – whether it’s a decision to purchase a product, or an implementation to add new technology – whatever touches the ultimate solution must buy-in to the change. Often our focus is on getting the end-result we think we want. We forget that without buy-in from the necessary people and policies that maintain the status quo, we face the high cost of the resistance emanating from pushing change into a system that believes that it’s fine, thanks.

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Human Performance Warning Flag 1 – Peer Checking Everything

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Performing operational tasks is no different than administrative work or project activities – elevate all tasks to a level of equal importance and they all become unimportant. As previously defined in StrategyDriven Human Performance Management Best Practice 2 – Peer Checking , activities that should be peer checked are those irreversible actions presenting a severe adverse consequence if an error is made.

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Leadership Inspirations – Well Done

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“Well done is so much better than well said.&#. Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790). Founding Father of the United States of America. You just finished reading Leadership Inspirations - Well Done ! Consider leaving a comment! If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.