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Ask These 5 Questions to Develop a Winning Strategy

Skip Prichard

If you don’t study your environment and look at your goals and metrics? If you don’t apply some classic, tried-and-true strategic management tools—like the ones he outlines at the end of The Strategy Book —then your strategy is, by default, “stay-the-course.” If you don’t do research? Where do we want to go?

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Accountability & Metrics: My Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership (Part 2)

Terry Starbucker

4) The right metrics & measurements are set up – Each position needs objectives measure of success, from both a personal, team, and company-wide perspective. Choose them wisely, and keep them to a small and manageable number. Principle #6: Measuring, Monitoring And Managing With The Right Metrics.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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How Overfocusing on Goals Can Hold Us Back

Harvard Business Review

Then you would create a mechanism to reward the robot for moving toward that goal and to punish it for moving farther away, so that over time it finds its way out. And it won’t want to turn around because that would mean moving away from the goal and getting punished. ” Most modern managers take this as a given.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

Activist investors challenge management strategies. The first believes the company’s goal is to maximize shareholder value. And without knowing how managers decide, it is almost impossible to hold them accountable for what they decide. Corporate governance issues are constantly in the headlines.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker said : “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. ” Metric obsession. Tyranny of intermediate goals.