Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Thankfully, in my experience, there are certain benchmarks we can aim for, which seem to exist in successful organizations I’ve observed. When we strive for these benchmarks, we at least have a path to guide us. Reflecting back, I could see some of our benchmarks. Nothing worth doing well is ever easy. They don’t.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Effective Leadership Satya Nadella’s transformative leadership at Microsoft demonstrates the profound impact of visionary and effective leadership. It’s crucial to develop leadership at all levels, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Leadership doesn’t make “a difference.” Be extraordinary.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

As a result, they are viewed as having less leadership potential. The Benchmarking Mindset. Rather than simply benchmarking direct rivals, companies need to think broadly about the full range of substitutes against which they compete. And there seems to be a stigma surrounding creative types. Focus and distance.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

While analyzing these drivers will give you some basic operating information, they are also somewhat myopic. While the following overview is not by any means exhaustive, it provides a great jumping-off point to fuel productive thought and conversation. These are the metrics of how an organization performs against its benchmarks.

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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. People are operating with reasonable, attainable, measurable and worthy goals.

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Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Already approaching a Billion square of projects not only in the United States but also from India to Sweden and Israel to Bhutan, if you are not familiar with the Arc platform, that helps a building owner measure performance and benchmark against others, you are missing out on what is transmogrifying the built environment.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Plan and Benchmark.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] In most cases your wins won’t put you out of business, but your losses most certainly can.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

They believe in the work, the product, the community of the workplace. Institutionally, they believe in success and understand the millions of tiny steps it takes for your vision to become a plan, for the plan to be put into action and those actions to become a benchmark operation. Settling is not in their nature. What’s Next?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

By now, we all know that leadership is tough, hard, exciting and demanding. Leading organizations and teams to respond using the best tactical approach will determine if the organization can really deploy the needed projected force with the ability to move freely by means of sufficient sustainability for prolonged operations.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. Corporate Responsibility means operating a business in ways that meet or exceed the ethical, legal, commercial and public expectations that society has of business.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Delivering on this promise has been a challenging activity that many leaders grapple with when measuring digital marketing benchmarks for success. Regardless of how it’s asked, “are we earning a return for our digital dollars” is a “hot button” marketing question poised by leaders, management and operating staff.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies. One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

First and foremost, your senior leadership has to be on the same page with a crisp and clear long term vision. This is a haphazard way to operate. Based on current production, this means recruiting 10 more top sales personnel (gap number 2, not enough sales people). The caveat is to avoid the disruption of current operations.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

One of the by-products of being high-profile is that you get hangers-on. Examine and benchmark the reasons and results. Most mean well and want to associate with someone successful. Some are groupies, and some are outright users. The art is to discern and marginalize the weeds from your path. One mean-weller kept hounding me.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. Mentorship and leadership development. Provide business owners with a totally different perspective on how they can operate and be more successful. Philosophy. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Employees work hard, rather than productively. Programs must be competent, effective and benchmarked. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. Operations continue to streamline and are professional and productive. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. The Big Picture.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Benchmarking the progress made and communicate it outside the community. airline industry reported an operating loss of more than $10 billion in 2001 and a net loss of almost $8 billion, according to Air Carrier Financial Statistics Quarterly, a compilation of airline financial reports issued by the U.S. Rebuilding the community image.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Can the benchmarking information be accessed regularly? Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels.

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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. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. They arbitrarily disable accounts.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. In this era, business started embracing formal planning.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 16, 2013

DiSC Team Building & Leadership simulations and activities can add application and understanding to your existing programs. and more… Contact Create-Learning to discuss how to make your DiSC team building and leadership program effective. __. There are many variations from conversational models to highly active models. Guidelines.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What excites me about S&B at Audible is that we work to improve the lives of those without privilege in the cities and countries in which we operate, because Audible seeks to exemplify what a company can mean beyond what it does. Another avenue to weave S&B into workplace culture is to prioritize it in our products.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What excites me about S&B at Audible is that we work to improve the lives of those without privilege in the cities and countries in which we operate, because Audible seeks to exemplify what a company can mean beyond what it does. Another avenue to weave S&B into workplace culture is to prioritize it in our products.

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles. Product-service movement at business-to-business levels. Product-service movement at retail levels.

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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. Programs must be competent, effective and benchmarked. Without goals, one cannot operate under self-control. Businesses should review their Strategic Plan annually.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Professionals who succeed the most are the products of mentoring. Achievement is a continuum, but it must be benchmarked and enjoyed along the way. These are my concluding pieces of leadership advice. Leadership and executive development skills are steadily learned and continually sharpened. Know where you are going.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. People-Productivity. Apathy, low productivity and discord are exhibited. There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Promotions of products and sales.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 26, 2014

To succeed in the world of work you have to operate within the mutual agenda where these two factors intersect. Individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders can discover the mutual agenda where their own career aspirations and hopes for a productive working life you seek can align with the specific needs of the organization.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To succeed in the world of work you have to operate within the mutual agenda where these two factors intersect. Individual contributors, managers, and senior leaders can discover the mutual agenda where their own career aspirations and hopes for a productive working life you seek can align with the specific needs of the organization.

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Books Goal Sports Commitment 66

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. Since 2008, we've benchmarked the performance of nearly 250 operations centers working on both core operations (e.g., But that's not by accident.

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