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What Does Success Really Look Like?

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to success in business, it’s easy to focus on obvious measures like profitability, how much of a market share we’ve accrued, and whether we get our products/services out within or under the expected timeframe. Success should also be something that’s not transitory, as is the case with most external metrics.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. But these metrics can become tyrants. For years, U.S.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It reminds me of Drucker’s first rule of decision making: one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement. ” Great post Mike – it is obvious you have spent a lot of time thing about and work with top teams! link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment and kind words John. Consensus isn’t the goal. Good input is.

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Long-Termism Is Just as Bad as Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

Those who call for fixing our financial system and reforming our capital markets often cite the “short-termism” of American companies and their lack of long-term corporate thinking. But we need management reform more than reform of the financial system and capital markets. Their solution?

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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.” ” Metric obsession. Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S.

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Lessons from the Three Cups of Tea Controversy

Harvard Business Review

Make sure the metrics reinforce the goals. The reason for focusing on this number is that the CAI and Mortenson both place great weight on this metric — total number of schools, and number of schools built in each region. education), it makes sense to help show progress by focusing on concrete metrics (e.g.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). They require rethinking the fundamentals of management.