Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 5, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

At the core of the confusion over a company like Tesla is that traditional business metrics are outdated and can create overconfidence or underestimation. Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Without a doubt, a career in human resources can be a wild ride. On the one hand, you’ve got a pile of new laws and regulations to decipher and an executive team demanding more metrics. The skills gap experts have warned against for decades is upon us, and it’s harder than ever to fill those empty chairs.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

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. It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Caution: do not obsess over and single metric or forge to update your metrics as you grow. #7 Nearly every example you admire was developed using a blueprint. By working backward and crafting a blueprint, you will find patterns that demystify complex works. #4 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve. 5 Embrace the Vision-Ability Gap.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 9, 2015

Wild At Heart: Discovering The Secret Of A Man’s Soul by John Eldredge – This is the second or third time I’ve read through Wild At Heart and I’ve found it just as applicable today as I did the first time I read the book. What we can take away from Wild At Heart is that men and women are created differently.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I saw literally millions and millions of dollars flow into projects that had no real metrics and timeline in place. Establish Guardrails I worked in several large companies during my corporate career, and I can’t tell you the number of pet projects that became my pet peeves. In other words, these projects had no guardrails.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

Start by basing your social strategy on business objectives, then follow that by thinking about target market, social media platforms, tools, and metrics. Don’t simply set goals for higher follower or engagement metrics in the brand’s current social media accounts. How will you know you are successful?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being the founder of an innovative product or service requires holistic thinking, taking into account all aspects of what makes a new venture successful—from its value proposition to the customer (user), product development, technologies, cost to deliver, performance metrics and finally to getting the resources needed for implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

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. At metrics-driven companies, an extreme focus on customer feedback scores can eventually lead to gaming the system.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. Pep Boys, a US auto parts store chain, reports in its proxy statement that customer metrics are now an important part of its executive compensation system. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. A clear link to financial and strategic outcomes.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

A much better measure of engagement is how likely employees are to recommend their workplace to a family member or friend, a metric known as eNPS because it’s a sibling of the well-known Net Promoter System. He involved employees in changing the culture (a group of 800 representatives chose the new name.)

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Customer Loyalty Human Capital Wilde Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

She described ethnographic field research where, armed with cameras, Vans leadership hit the road to observe customers out in the wild. Performance CMOs shift the conversation from activity metrics — site traffic and audience engagement, for example; and vanity metrics — likes, followers, retweets, etc.;

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Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

We believe that CEOs need a partner for innovation inside their companies, someone who will create and defend processes, incentives, and metrics that encourage radical ideas and find new areas for growth. You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” And this new role needs to sit in the C-suite.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

We arrived at these metrics by reviewing the academic literature on employee engagement and filling in the gaps with questions about what people actually do, such as going above and beyond direct job responsibilities.) Academics, consultants, and leaders have been grappling with that question for decades.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Establish your performance metrics. Be sure to align this with your company goals and culture, and create tangible metrics, particularly for the most important positions at the company. Next, build out a bonus structure that reflects the relative value in terms of pay for these metrics. Identify who you can’t live without.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

That’s not true of public companies, where quarterly metrics are scrutinized by analysts, and activist investors can buy up large stakes and push for change. Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Throw out the performance metrics you've always relied on. "A Perhaps earlier in your career the metric was money or fame, but now you want more autonomy, flexibility, authority, or to make a positive dent in the world. These require different metrics of success. With a nod to McClure: "Dear You.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Let's dispense with the case where the founder-CEO has tragic flaws, like corruption or wild incompetence. The CEO, the VC reminds us, serves at the pleasure of the board. Sensible in theory, this strategy almost always destroys value in practice. Why, then, destroy one asset to "improve" another?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

For millennia people have run by feel, an "art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain," says Christopher McDougall in his anthropological study of the topic. Now we can lace up a pair of "smart" sneakers and instantly shift from running by feel to running by metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The microsite served as a data source for us to find out what people are most interested in, but we’re constantly tracking metrics that help us improve our programs — and we try to apply some of the lessons in real time. Hacktober is also a great learning opportunity for the security team. Recognize and reward engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

One solution is to begin applying a structured taxonomy to proposed IT initiatives based quantifiable metrics like complexity, breadth of need, and return on investment. As CIOs pitch new IT projects and their teams undertake delivery, cost and effort estimates can vary wildly. IT as Process Creator.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Veronica sells her cotton to Cargill, and her corn to COMACO, a local nonprofit that markets food to consumers while also striving to save wild animals and ecosystems. Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics. Veronica Banda is one impressive farmer I met recently in eastern Zambia. Accountants Will Save the World.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply. Your business plan is comprised of a series of: goals (the main objective), sub-goals or tasks required to achieve the goal, key success factors (metrics) and standards (quality requirements). Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

From how we initiate a project by establishing metrics and outcomes from the beginning, to being more agile in building programs that can bend, move and iterate as we learn from what the market is telling us (marketing optimization anyone?). Eric Ries brought the concept of the Lean Startup into our zeitgeist. Most have had limited success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

That could be any number of metrics — revenues, profits, total return to shareholders, or some combination — but for purposes of this discussion we’ll focus on revenues.). The exercise required to calculate your growth gap sounds commonsensical: Start by setting the growth target you wish to achieve some years in the future.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Without a doubt, a career in human resources can be a wild ride. On the one hand, you’ve got a pile of new laws and regulations to decipher and an executive team demanding more metrics. Unfortunately, neither are going to change in the near term.

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Tips Human Resources Software Training 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

Wild, right? Which metric is right? Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics. Take for example a finding from the data team at Uber that prostitution arrests increased on Wednesdays based on Oakland Crime Data. Well, both of them. And neither of them. They are merely different perspectives on the same data.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

As online conversation moved away from blog comment threads and into the wilds of Twitter, Topsy allowed social media users to track and participate in conversations around a single blog post or topic, and to find and engage with the most thoughtful tweets. But as an analytics platform, Topsy also reflected the growing focus on metrics.

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Humphrey Media Tools Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

Swapping bagels and donuts for egg sandwiches, breakfast tacos, or yogurt parfaits (protein and low-glycemic foods) can help to prevent these wild swings in blood glucose. Success metrics must be clear and agreed upon in advance, and managers may need training on effective leadership of remote workers.

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Real Estate Energy Policies Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. The greening of the supply chain. Big organizations keep asking more of their suppliers. The military continues to lead the way on energy and climate.

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