N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. I particularly liked: "Consensus isn't the goal. link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment and kind words John. Good input is. Good input is."

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even today, investing in more formalized measures of self-assessment can be crucial to developing your skills and shifting your attention towards goals that are truly aligned with your strengths. Having a successful career is a common life goal , and yet many of us appear to be engaged in temporary jobs filled with uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

When organizations introduce new processes or systems, or when they want to stimulate performance for certain business practices, they often assemble dedicated task forces, assign them specific goals, and identify deadlines and financial rewards.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Establish Common Goals. Define the Respective Roles of Competition and Cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

It starts with a “vision” statement, moves on to “strategic themes” (six in all) and culminates in 28 “strategic goals.” Take the example of a dairy cooperative I worked with recently. ” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 3, 2014

Think long term Although it may feel counterintuitive, to thrive within a volatile world, leaders must be aware of the present moment while simultaneously setting their sights on long-term goals: purpose must be a part of the present. Since value creation is qualitative as well as quantitative, no metric can completely capture success.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

That afternoon, you hash out specific goals and plans that will fulfill your purpose. Purpose, goals, plans. Performance metrics and feedback. On the final day, the group coalesces around a clear statement of purpose — not just the what of your task but the why and who benefits in responding to the challenge.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 22, 2015

It shows that connection makes people perform better, give greater discretionary effort, better align their behavior with their leader’s goals, communicate better, cooperate more and contribute to the organization’s marketplace of ideas that fuel innovation. Becoming Intentional.

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Competitive Advantage Licensing Survey Cooper 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Unilever agreed, but required of Ben & Jerry’s management that they work out a way of measuring their social mission performance by creating “Social Metrics.” The next step is researching and developing sustainability norms, interim goals, measurement models and data collection protocols for each of the material AOIs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. In the wake of the scandal, GSK changed its incentive policy to evaluate employees who work with customers on a wider variety of metrics, including technical knowledge, quality of service, and adherence to company values.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

the goals are aligned. The alignment of investors' interests with the executive team's goals. Companies get offers to be acquired, but at much lower valuation than the original dream goal. Sometimes you're asking them to take the long view when they're rewarded by a different set of metrics. Apple wants to be cool.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Start unlearning by explicitly recognizing that these metrics or assumptions are from the past and not necessarily useful for the future. This is part of unlearning, saying, "Our goal is X, we tried Q, we learned K so our next pilot should be T." Reward learning and cooperation. Augment expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Extreme schedules remain a key metric of manliness. It’s akin to winning a pie-eating contest where the prize is more pie,” observed a law firm associate , rejecting law firm partnership as a goal. Come back with your shield or on it,” a partner used to joke in the 1980s whenever someone in my husband’s BigLaw firm went to court.

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Diversity Ethics Report Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a new global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 90 percent of respondents said their organizations failed to reach all of their strategic goals because of flawed implementation. They enable organizations to counter the threats to the implementation of strategic initiatives and the realization of strategic goals.

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Strategy Content Cooper Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

A team is a group of people who do collective work and are mutually committed to a common team purpose and challenging goals related to that purpose. They produce results that exceed what groups of individuals can do through simple cooperation and coordination. Tangible goals based on that purpose. A team also needs clarity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. They offer up a powerful reframing of the metrics from, as judge Dov Seidman put it, "how much" to "how." The Mondragon Cooperative Experience: Humanity at Work. Story by Greg Koch, Coca-Cola.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

However, the problem with this approach (what I call the doing approach) is that it competes on race-to-the-bottom metrics: low cost, high volume, and speedy delivery. The goal was to find ways to use copper to combat the spread of infections. Orchestrate public-private cooperation through robust policy development.

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