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Quality: Setting Right Goals

QAspire

Most improvement initiatives are heavily focused on internal goals – increasing productivity/efficiency, eliminating waste, reducing defects/costs and so on. Processes around these goals are written and implemented. People are trained, tools are implemented, energies are directed and everyone starts working hard to meet these goals.

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Determining Your Top 5 Priorities for 2014

Michael Lee Stallard

While it may not be possible to find a perfect set of priorities which meet the interests of all, make the effort to find the best possible set of priorities and you will be rewarded by people who execute their tasks with greater energy and enthusiasm. Track Your Top Five.

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Mastering the Metrics: A Complete Guide to Evaluating Training Effectiveness

Experience to Lead

Using a combination of feedback tools, performance metrics and data analytics, ensures training investments are aligned and support business objectives. There’s no point in investing time and energy into training if it won’t serve a purpose. The first step is determining the objectives and what you want to gain.

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The CEO of Kimberly-Clark on Building a Sustainable Company

Harvard Business Review

FALK : In 1996, I picked up responsibility for our Energy & Environment group. We had already made a lot of progress in reducing energy consumption and water usage, improving forestry policies, and limiting air and water emissions, but my predecessor thought we should set some stretch goals for 2000.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

I watch them to experience the magical energy of live performances. Learn when deadline crunch time is best to accomplish the optimum business objectives. You just finished reading The Big Picture of Business - Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success !

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Rethinking The “Ideal” Employee

Lead Change Blog

But let’s assume for a minute that a company has articulated measurable business objectives—not the pie-in-the-sky fluff that many organizations pass off as a “vision.” ” Let’s further assume that the company has cascaded these objectives into measurable goals for individual employees and teams.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

This is often difficult because multiple stakeholders across functions must invest in a new approach while still meeting their own obligations to keep the current business running. Consider a large home energy provider in a mature, commoditized market where deregulation is driving down revenue and profit.