Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I immediately made a lifelong goal to read a thousand books. I have not reached that goal yet, but I’m eating away at it. Written 70 years ago, it’s still the benchmark book for attitude, goal setting, and achievement. A benchmark and game-changing book for me and millions ofother people in business.

Books 56

Books Open-book Benchmarking Godin 56

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So with apologies to those who don't share this passion, I present to you the September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival, NFL Kick-off Edition. Lynn Dessert from Elephants at Work completes a hail mary pass with Using the Benchmarks® Assessment for Leadership Development. "As Miami Dolphins. Dallas Cowboys. Mike Henry Sr.

Leadership Development 243

Leadership Development Development Leadership Benchmarking 243

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. Lastly, if you don’t have a capabilities brochure already, develop one now. Invest some resources in developing a high-quality brochure that you can leave as a calling card with clients and prospects during new business discussions. Design a Prospect Debrief Questionnaire Step 5.

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

They have to make choices across the business in terms of investment opportunities or talent development — where to place executives to develop skills as future leaders, for instance. I understand; the benchmarking process is like searching for blame on who got the company into the dead-end situation in the first place.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Dunning CEO Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Engagement with employees was poor; there was little internal communication and no surveys of employee loyalty or efforts to improve it. There is a simple but significant way to help achieve that goal: Evaluate and compensate CEOs, at least partly, on their ability to create a culture of aligned, engaged employees.

Long-term 12

Long-term Attrition Six Sigma Balanced Scorecard 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It doesn’t need to be complicated; in one company, a marketing department saved 20 percent after simply benchmarking the money they were spending on external agencies. Together with the CFO, the CMO must develop a set of objectives that directly deliver on financial objectives and business goals.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

Instead of relying on intuition or anecdotal evidence, HR professionals can use data to make informed choices that align with organizational goals. Improved HR Planning: HR analytics enables organizations to forecast future workforce needs, identify skill gaps, and develop effective HR strategies.

Metrics 98

Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Whether developing a new venture, managing an internal corporate innovation initiative, or working to develop globally successful product and service designs (my profession), nothing is more important than understanding what people need and desire in context of what the competition is providing. So what do you do?

Benchmarking 13

Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Consider that improving Netflix's recommendation-engine accuracy by about 10% proved so challenging that only two teams — of tens of thousands from over 180 countries competing for the $1 million prize — were able to hit the goal. But we should consider that we've actually had more data than we can reasonably use for a while now.

Metrics 15

Metrics Media PR Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When risks do present themselves, they develop plans to minimize the risk and identify where it is needed most. To develop better risk management behaviors, CEOs need to: List a minimum of eight ideas for new initiatives. Identify, document and plan for risks as part of developing strategic alternatives.

Innovation 8

Innovation Skills CEO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

While the strategies are different, the goal is the same — to generate awareness and engagement. They can be direct, as in discussion forums, or indirect, through peer benchmarking. The building blocks are Sephora’s Loyalty program, mobile app, BeautyTalk community, and ColorIQ service.

Media 8

Media B2B Disintermediation Content 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

A customer journey looks at things entirely from the customers' point of view:; their actions, goals, questions, and barriers over time. An interesting contrast is online shoe retailer Zappos, which wants customers to call, as the company sees that as a loyalty-builder for the brand, even if it's relatively expensive.

Insurance 15

Insurance Retail Brand Loyalty 15

Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Is it possible to help our people develop good character or do we simply accept that if they don’t have good character by adulthood, they never will? Doing the right thing often involves executing on such core values as integrity, loyalty, honesty, courage and fortitude. It’s what makes being human so challenging sometimes.

Ethics 95

Ethics Servant Leader Execution Survey 95

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Calculating organic growth.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

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. Body of Knowledge.

Mentor 56

Mentor Strategic Planning Leadership Benchmarking 56

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. A body of pleasurable and memorable experiences from which customers will build brand loyalty. Running the business.

Long-term 56

Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Organizations often assume that a promotion should involve giving star performers responsibility for managing more people and developing — rather than just executing — strategy. Take a look at all of her duties and try to benchmark them against other jobs in the company or in the broader employment market.

Learning-by-Doing 15

Learning-by-Doing Motivation Case Study Budgeting 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. It demanded blind loyalty, hired ISTJ personality types for support and rewarded dogmatic sales types for trading deals. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics.

Strategic Planning 58

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 58