HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to bank executives, companies including Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Moelis have introduced programs to automate basic functions such as generating pitch books and valuation modeling. And that’s ripe for automation,” said Roy Choudhury, managing director at Boston Consulting Group.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 15, 2020

They fret over the upcoming election and its potential impact on their families and finances. That may be true for executives as much as the rank and file. Consider including employee performance metrics for achievement against these new initiatives. New metrics should measure employees’ performance in meeting those goals.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 10, 2021

They may report to one manager or be a matrixed team that comes from several departments, such as a task force, to accomplish an objective. Leaders at all levels can be coached, but usually at the highest levels this is called Executive Coaching , meaning “the coaching of executives.” Business coach, finance coach, sales coach.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Measure and Manage Based on the Right Metrics. The metrics you use as the yardstick for organizational performance affect how people act. Collect Data to Manage Labor Costs. The solution is to carefully track data on staffing and manage labor on a cost-per-patient-day level.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip. In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Bonus or no bonus? They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. That is the question.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

This includes sales , marketing, customer support, pricing, and revenue management, distinctly mapping out the path to sustainable, profitable growth. A CRO must possess a diverse skill set to deliver on various responsibilities, from revenue growth management to strategic initiatives.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

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Blog Survey Talent Management Brand 284

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 418

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

It has definitely caused its fair share of angst, frustration, and vigorous debate among executives and professional advisors simply for the reason that it is one of the few metrics that touches virtually every aspect of a business.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 308

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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Brand Brand Management Blog Media 318

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Section IX: Team Building.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 305

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The fact of the matter is that senior executives who rise to the C-suite do so largely based upon their ability to consistently make sound decisions. Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Establishing an incident management plan to ensure a safe working environment for their customers and employees.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read! Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal. Significance is eternal.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Not long after joining the company, I worked closely with Audible’s Founder and Executive Chairman, Don Katz, along with other senior members of the leadership team, to determine and articulate the beliefs which defined Audible, listening carefully to employee feedback throughout the entire process.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Not long after joining the company, I worked closely with Audible’s Founder and Executive Chairman, Don Katz, along with other senior members of the leadership team, to determine and articulate the beliefs which defined Audible, listening carefully to employee feedback throughout the entire process.

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For chief executives and other senior leaders, it is not unusual for 60-80% of their pay to be tied to performance – whether performance is measured by quarterly earnings, stock prices, or something else. We argue in favor of abolishing pay-for-performance for top managers altogether. Contingent pay only works for routine tasks.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Most companies get metrics all wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. It’s not just the company’s metrics that investors are interested in. Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs.

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IPO Execution Incentives Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In 2016 the Scottish National Health Service (NHS Scotland) piloted an approach to value improvement that took both cost and quality into account and turned the management of value into the basic task of the point-of-care manager. The following tools constitute the basic building blocks of the value-management system.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Do you really want to financially incentivize your executives to make hiring decisions that place a greater value upon diversity mandates than qualifications?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. But in my work with clients, when I ask executives if the CRM system is helping their business to grow, the failure rate is closer to 90%. That was actually an average of a dozen analyst reports. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Charles D''Agostino, executive director of the Louisiana Business & Technology Center at Louisiana State University, offers some analysis: "Incubators do work, but they must be more than a real estate entity offering executive suite services. Most incubators use funding as a success metric, which is a somewhat flawed criterion.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. The metric was an attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on what are extremely disconcerting profitability numbers for the company.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Many rely on metrics such as the Net Promoter Score to track how customers feel about them. Total Quality Management ? Company after company learned to use new metrics and to address the root causes of problems. Every executive knows — or should know — that good business decisions require both kinds of input.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. This is also true of executives. Metrics emphasized speed. They couldn’t adapt to improve their work.

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