Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Set Goals That Lead ). Discipline I. Discipline I. Decide What's Important ).

System 98

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Set Goals That Lead ). Discipline I. Discipline I. Decide What's Important ).

System 85

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Ensuring that the team accomplishes the task within the Quality, Quantity, Time Frame and Resources ( Goal being a what by when ) determined. Objectives : Have I agreed these with my manager, the person accountable for the team? Process: Have I worked one out to reach the objectives? Purpose : Am I clear what the task is?

Team 145

Team Team Building Objective Learning-by-Doing 145

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The challenges provoked by difficult immigration policies and procedures is something I’ve touched upon a number of times, as not only do scientists and entrepreneurs find it challenging to navigate extensive processes, startups and other smaller organizations often lack the resources to support them. Collective goals.

Offshoring 54

Offshoring Policies Innovation Organizational Behavior 54

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 23, 2013

Growth of the coaching industry was rapid in the 1980''s, when it was hailed as a management tool for improving work performance and for building teams. Executives are required to manage greater complexity, risk, and pressure at a faster pace than ever before.

Executive Coaching 91

Executive Coaching CEO Industry Execution 91

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Goals & Tasks : Have they been agreed and developed into Quantity:Quality:Time Frame:Resources (QQTR) ? How; what is the method and process? The Person : How well does Management know them? Time/Attention : How much time does the persons immediate manager spend with this person listening, developing, coaching?

Development 151

Development Team Team Building Training 151

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Teams that are high functioning and deliver consistently great results come from a purposeful process and method. These are aligned with goals, values and commitments that are discussed, coached, and evaluated throughout the life span of the team. Is the manager fair and impartial in enforcing them? London: Thorogood.

Team 124

Team Team Building Training Commitment 124

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Growth of the coaching industry was rapid in the 1980's, when it was hailed as a management tool for improving work performance and for building teams. Executives are required to manage greater complexity, risk, and pressure at a faster pace than ever before.

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching CEO Industry Execution 78

Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2018

For instance, while buyers most want to talk about : What my company is trying to achieve with the purchase The reasons my company needs to make the purchase My company’s overall goals … sellers most want to talk about : Pricing How the product/service works (a product demo) So, if you sell, you need to read this book.

Ramaswamy 50

Ramaswamy Open-book Prahalad Bottom-up 50

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

When the steps in the coaching process described below are followed, leaders almost always positive behavioral change – not as judged by themselves, but as judged by pre-selected, key stakeholders. This process has been used around the world with great success – by both external coaches and internal coaches.

Learning-by-Doing 123

Learning-by-Doing Long-term CEO Follow-up 123

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Our goal should be to help them get where they want to go – even if their vision is slightly different from ours. Be Them Focused Many years ago I had a manager who saw great things in my future. Remember that you are helping people reach their potential, helping them discover their agenda and goals. Potential is about passion.

Development 123

Development Goal Advice Open-book 123

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The same could be said for a quality goal of 6.3 We both view Toyota’s highly prized resource management results through a lens of interdependencies that is guided by W. Deming is the core of our management.” . In consideration of the economics of quality improvement, are defect goals of either 6.3

Six Sigma 37

Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

And as anyone who has ever given or received a traditional performance review knows, this process can be highly subjective — even in the most metrics-obsessed organizations. While it might be easy to measure someone’s output on an assembly line, how do we decide how well a manager manages or a leader leads?

Management 8

Management Performance Review Review Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

In 2004, Greece surprised the world by winning the European Championship, the toughest tournament in international soccer. These key management elements have been found to work even with B players, and could transform a team of average individual contributors into an over-performing team. They are: Vision.

Team 8

Team Management How To eBook 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

From this process, one of two conclusions are drawn: either the leader cares and more trust is earned, or the leader doesn’t care and trust is lost. Our region consistently far exceeded all annual quality and workload goals and led the other two Navy Medicine regions in nearly all key performance indicators.

Leadership 133

Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 133

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

As part of our work researching high-performing primary care systems , we discovered a system-wide approach launched by Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) in 2004 that unburdens primary care physicians. customized weight-loss calendars and healthy recipes), and manage complex schedules (e.g., million members.

Health Care 8

Health Care Compliance Licensing System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Following the Challenger explosion, NASA did take concrete steps to correct flawed organizational processes. It stimulates an organization to emphasize safety as a primary concern, as it seeks to identify the root causes and to make the corresponding corrections in its processes, structure and culture.

Organization 8

Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

It's a process that hinges on a two-way exchange of information: Voters tell the candidate what they care about, and the candidate tells voters what he or she stands for. In more and more companies today, leaders manage their communication efforts in a way that calls to mind ordinary, person-to-person conversation.

Operations 15

Operations Media Long-term Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

But more than two-thirds of 1990 industry leaders no longer existed by 2004. They pursue audacious goals, which others would typically view as impossible pipedreams, while at the same time remaining aware of the magnitude of the challenges confronting them and the difficulties that lie ahead. Subservience to purpose.

CEO 15

CEO Self-aware Bottom-up Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

” — Bono, singer for U2, 2004 University of Pennsylvania commencement. Not every speaker will knock it out of the park, but all have the same goal: to impart some wisdom that will hopefully inspire the next generation. So, go forth and build something with it.” Develop a mutual mentoring program.

Wiseman 9

Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

For example, at The Fat Duck in the UK (which has had three Michelin stars since 2004, except in 2016 when it closed for refurbishment, and where I worked on the innovation side), cooking temperatures are systematically controlled to 0.1°C, This means achieving precise standardization and strong quality control.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Creativity Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. Other nations followed suit – adopting either mandatory quotas (Germany, France, Belgium, Iceland, Italy) or voluntary goals (Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK), with goals for female representation ranging from 25% to 40%.

Diversity 8

Diversity Resistance CEO Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

The Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 (and amendments in 1988 and 2004) called for government agencies such as NASA to support the development and growth of commercial space. The ISS was a necessary step in the grand goal of launching human missions in deep space, such as to Mars, a key NASA aspiration for decades.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

At least seven hedge fund managers earned more than $1 billion just in 2009. In 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit set a series of ambitious development goals for 2015 , among them reducing by half the number of people living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger and lacking access to clean drinking water.

Hedge 15

Hedge Cost Energy Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management. What were the areas of focus — technical, process, human capital, risk? Was a risk assessment presented?

System 15

System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The better I get at filtering and managing my email, the more convinced I am that email overload may be an intractable problem. If you're getting 10 emails a day, that seems like a manageable volume. It is unacceptable to ignore (i.e. not respond to) an email that implicitly or explicitly asks for a response. What if it's 500?

Shaw 15

Shaw Cost Review Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization. Of course it would be ideal to hire a manager who is equally adept in Peoria and Pune, but there is a paucity of such talent in a growing emerging market.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Even more tricky, they had to learn to articulate something that had been tacit: a shared understanding of goals, culture, and what it takes to succeed at Citrus Lane. Change management Entrepreneurship Execution' We just took our core delivery business and applied for rights in different states.”

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. He suggests you “think about the transition in steps,” which “preserves your optionality to disengage” at any point during the process.

Due Diligence 9

Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

What''s missing, though, is something like this: CEO Risk: Much of JPMorgan Chase''s excellent performance relative to its peers in recent years can be attributed to its Chairman and CEO, who has proved to be a uniquely valuable combination of careful risk manager and hard-driving business leader. He won''t be around forever, though.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis CEO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On a scale of one to five, how important is having a good network to your ability to accomplish your goals? By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The goal is to figure out which persuadable voters to spend energy — and dollars — on, in the hope of moving the dial just slightly in their favor. In 2004, microtargeting was a fairly new concept. It's a world where hundredths of a percentage point matter. Definitely the scale.

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8