Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. Your personal goals need a long-term strategy. Radical Product Thinking : The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter by Radhika Dutt.

Books 318

Books Long-term Leadership Short-term 318

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 12, 2015

Rather, these leaders understood that the key to creating a compelling vision or goal that others would want to be a part of requires that we put our focus on how to create a supportive environment; that as leaders, we need to care more about doing right by our employees, than on being right [ Share on Twitter ].

Emotional Intelligence 100

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Environment Politics 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

Now we can lace up a pair of "smart" sneakers and instantly shift from running by feel to running by metrics. Once a person crosses that threshold they are " massively more likely " to keep running by metrics than by feel alone. Frederick Taylor''s famous Time and Motion studies aimed to make factory work more scientific.

Taylorism 8

Taylorism Taylor Wireless Early Adopters 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Nothing gets done in organizations without followers, as they are people closest to the customers and issues, creating the products, taking orders, and collecting payments. Research has consistently shown that more engaged employees are harder working, more productive, and more likely to stay with organizations than those who are disengaged.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It can spur creativity and accelerate actions designed to meet important goals. It's the basis for their goals. Once compensation depends on improving a particular score, people tend to focus on the metric rather than on what it tells you about what customers want or need. Done right, it can reinforce a company's values.

Incentives 14

Incentives Metrics Sample Survey 14

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

It’s really a matter of giving meaning to the work that each person does, which leads to happier, more motivated, and more productive teammates. A few years ago my company started tracking a customer service metric, based on specific customer feedback. The metric performed reasonably well, but hit a plateau short of the goal.

Succession 284

Succession Simon Metrics Tactics 284

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Paul Taylor/Getty Images. Millions today are already freely committing billions of hours, across distant locations, to co-creating products and services they care about. Pick a single front line work environment that is pivotal to performance, and charge workers there with a purposeful goal or question.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency CFO Technology Competitive Advantage 8