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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

Rather team building is about alignment of vision with expectations, getting team members to understand exactly what their roles are, and making sure they have the right resources to perform said duties with exacting precision. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Good input is.

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4 Ways to Build a Productive Sales Culture

Harvard Business Review

In the case of a sales organization, money, time, and effort allocated to accounts A and B are resources not available for accounts C, D, and so on. That reality drives the distinction between effectiveness (optimization by doing the right things) and efficiency (doing things right) that Peter Drucker and others made years ago.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Twenty thousand years ago most people lived in small, nomadic groups, and these groups offered individuals more protection, resources for securing food, and mating opportunities than they would have had on their own. Self-Starters want to share their ideas real time and want quick feedback outside of the normal workday hours.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow. Peter Drucker, the great management thinker, had it right when he said, “keep [your] noses to the grindstone while lifting [your] eyes to the hills.”

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, in the 1980s Peter Drucker, the management expert who correctly understood that the purpose of the business corporation is to create customers rather than profits for shareholders, touted 20:1 as a sufficiently high ratio for any company in any country, including the United States.

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