Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 26, 2016

While nothing worth doing well is ever easy, there are certain benchmarks we can aim for which seem to exist in successful organizations I’ve observed. Here are 7 benchmarks towards success in an organization: There is a clear vision and strategy. I was naive early in my leadership to believe everyone shared my work ethic.

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Benchmarking Organization Succession Edmondson 30

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

It provides valuable insights into employee behavior, performance, productivity, and interactions, enabling organizations to make data-backed decisions that drive business success. Improved HR Planning: HR analytics enables organizations to forecast future workforce needs, identify skill gaps, and develop effective HR strategies.

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Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Want to find out?

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities. It’s how we are wired.

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Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete. Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight. Is it possible to get the best of both worlds?

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Agility Short-term Long-term Competitive Advantage 120

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Business Development. Philosophy.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test. This, of course, varies according to the product/service offered. Are they using email blasts, social networking, relationships with key bloggers? The same idea works for e-marketing.

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Marketing Press Release Direct Marketing Discount 162

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Capitalizing upon change, rather than becoming a by-product of it. Quotes on The Future.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Don’t get caught up in attempting to develop something catchy to be encapsulated within a piece of framed artwork that hangs in your reception area yet never put into practice. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Business development. Employees work hard, rather than productively. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Human resources development. Programs must be competent, effective and benchmarked. Operations continue to streamline and are professional and productive. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategic Planning Goal Planning Budgeting 56

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

Professionals who succeed the most are the products of mentoring. The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. Many people do without the substantive insights into business because they have not really developed critical thinking skills. Planning, tactics, organizational development.

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Mentor Succession Benchmarking Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Business development. Executives are not fully prepared to handle challenges of the moment, much less to begin developing Big Picture thinking. Develop a true corporate culture. Inspires the development of organizational Vision. Mentorship and leadership development. Planning, tactics, organizational development.

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Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 69

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Professionals who succeed the most are the products of mentoring. The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. Many people do without the substantive insights into business because they have not really developed critical thinking skills. Develop, update and maintain a career growth document.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

Business development. These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. Upper management is most effective when it frames business decisions toward values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives and the benchmarking of tactics. Running the business.

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Mentor Strategic Planning Leadership Benchmarking 56

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. Can the benchmarking information be accessed regularly? Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels. Productivity gained.

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 74

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

Business development. The multiple parts of a successful company require care, attention, grooming and benchmarking. There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. The evolution, education, enrichment, professional development, training and life experiences that one amasses. Running the business.

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Long-term Benchmarking Quality Process 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Business development. There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. The evolution, education, enrichment, professional development, training and life experiences that one amasses. Care for the industry, the product and the process (a defined Vision). Who should be the arbitrator and benchmark?

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Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Finely develop skills in every aspect of the organization, beyond the scope of professional training. Develop and share own philosophies. Long-term track record, unlike anything accomplished by any other individual, all contributing toward organizational philosophy, purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth.

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Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Employees work hard, rather than productively. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Human resources development. Programs must be competent, effective and benchmarked. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital.

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Goal Strategic Planning Benchmarking Budgeting 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

The 1963 move from Philadelphia to California launched Dick Clark Productions. These are some of the principles that I developed myself but do credit being inspired by Dick Clark. People are more products of the pop culture than they are of formal business training. Dick Clark Productions had a select list of projects.

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Mentor Case Study Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing 94

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Business development. This approach costs six times that of doing things correctly on the front end… meaning planning, sequential execution and benchmarking progress. Gross National Product goes toward cleaning up problems, damages and otherwise high costs of doing either nothing or doing the wrong things. Product recalls.

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Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Business development. Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. How sad is this? Are these extreme statements?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Websites that sell products are digital platforms, not the arbitrators of quality in the business world. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. Productivity translates to profitability in an advantageous climate in which to function.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? I’m not against benchmarking and norming. While benchmarks are useful inputs for compensation decisions, they shouldn’t be a straitjacket. Let’s take pay.

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Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

They come from different backgrounds and are products of a pop culture that puts its priorities and glories in the wrong places.a Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. That professionals can get by without developing public speaking and writing skills. society that worships flash-and-sizzle over substance.

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Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The company did more than 4,000 deals…most risky and without research, planning and benchmarking. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Adrienne Tom ( Career Impressions ) ​ My #1 tip for being successful in a career today would be ongoing investment in professional development and skills development. Or perhaps someone who can spend some days behind their desk and other days in the field, equally productive in both environments. Emotional Intelligence.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. Scarcer jobs and diminishing wages can only lead to greater inequality and global instability.

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

They come from different backgrounds and are products of a pop culture that puts its priorities and glories in the wrong places…a society that worships flash-and-sizzle over substance. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. That professionals can get by without developing public speaking and writing skills.

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Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Business development. They come from different backgrounds and are products of a pop culture that puts its priorities and glories in the wrong places…a society that worships flash-and-sizzle over substance. Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Bottom-up System Learning-by-Doing Execution 59

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

These executives spanned functional areas and industries including consumer goods, IT, telecom, and industrial products, services, and materials. laura schneider FOR HBR. The tool consists of 28 statements, four for each of the seven ‘tudes. Encouraging open discussion of potential knowable issues.

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Globalization Company Short-term Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy. One way to expand your thinking is to look to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, whose time horizon is 2030; think of them as a purchase order from the future.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But so is the trepidation: as with all new “products,” there is potential for misuse. An appropriate first benchmark for evaluating the effect of using algorithms is the existing system – the predictions and decisions already being made by humans. The enthusiasm is well-placed. This is not some lucky happenstance.

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Policies Learning-by-Doing Tools Travel 8