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Leading Thoughts for February 2, 2023

Leading Blog

Robert Kaplan on learning to ask the right questions: “Fortunately, the key to managing and leading your organization and your career does not lie in ‘having all the answers.’ Source: Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Creating A Purpose-Driven Corporation

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, while the creation of common standards and metrics for governance are wholly sensible, the notion that companies must be legally bound to have a societal purpose seems excessively heavy handed and liable to receive considerable backlash from the corporate world. Some of these have considerably more merit than others.

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Leading a Culture of Innovation

LDRLB

Processes – How growth strategies and innovation are executed internally and externally including functional and cross-functional processes, customer engagement, information sharing, product and service development, and other activities. Innovation Leadership creativity innovation kaplan organizational culture'

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. Innovation innovation kaplan Leadership'

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Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House

LDRLB

This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. This is what we call a business’s health , and related metrics explain how financial results were achieved and provide causal insights into future performance potential.

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?