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.

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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 419

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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Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 419

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 19, 2015

Today’s story is about how I found my leadership secret weapon – an operational metric that could play a key role in our march to greatness, and provide a critical link between great customer service and profit. Our competitors offered more channels at a very competitive price, and were able to mass market.

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Leadership Metrics Price Mass Marketing 150

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

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. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance? While it is never too late to begin thinking about finishing well, the simple truth of the matter is that the longer you wait to begin thinking on a significant level, the less significant your legacy will be.”

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In 2010, at the peak of the national housing and mortgage market collapse, I began to have trouble speaking. Quite suddenly I was forced to develop a new approach to management and leadership that involved a lot less talking. Everyone else downstream allows their managers to occupy whatever turf they desire.

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Decentralization CEO Metrics Power 118

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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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2011

Situation Marketing team consisted of 12 people. Following interviews with each person and observation of the team in action the following areas were chosen for focus; Marketing team was lacking trust and understanding of themselves and others on the team. A metric was co-created to evaluate success over a period of time.

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Case Study Team Building Team Leadership 110

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.    That was a start.

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Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

They are risk managers who believe in protecting what was rather than embracing what is, and what will be. . They are opportunity managers who believe engagement to be more valuable than silence, they believe in dialog not monologue, they believe in change and innovation – not in status quo. . The Truth (as I see it).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Recent 2010 research* confirms what we know to be our biggest challenges as executives: 52% of executives don’t feel their company’s strategy will lead to success. Feliciano, Senior Managing Consultant / Strategy & Change Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at IBM Global Business Services - Strategy & Change.

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Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Complimentary Resource – 10 Metrics for 2013 Marketing Success. Complimentary Resource – Operational Risk Management: How Best-in-Class Manufacturers Improve Operating Performance with Proactive Risk Reduction. Complimentary Resource – The iPass Mobile Workforce Report (May 2010).

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Report Resources Performance Review Human Resources 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Amazon should explicitly measure for the care, compassion, and kindness that Bezos justly celebrated in his 2010 Princeton commencement address. ” No, Bezos shouldn’t embed a C@D—Crying@Desk—metric on his KPI dashboard. A Culture of Metrics 2.0 Data will eradicate ignorance and ambiguity.

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Metrics Management KPI Follow-up 8

The Idolbuster

MAY 21, 2012

Achilles Macris, who managed the European office and according to the NY Times shouted down anyone who objected to his strategy, still has a job. that is in effect manipulated the market, is still employed. But Ina Drew, who managed the unit where all of them work, is out of a job. Kind of makes you wonder.

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Banking Metrics Reputation Objective 45

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

When we drew up our plans and budgets, the key metric was consumer impressions: how many people would see, hear or read our ad? Now information flows in many directions, consumer touch points have multiplied, and the old, one-size-fits-all approach has given way to precision marketing and one-to-one communications.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. ” Management Science 56.2 2010): 253-269. [6] Paper presented at Academy of Management Meetings.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. In today’s post I’ll examine one of the most frequent offenders; “ Talent is our biggest asset.&#

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wasn’t nearly as dazzled by Jim’s statistics and metrics as I was his outlook on life. Where Jim fell short in my opinion was that if you’ve heard Jim before, there wasn’t a lot of new information. Jim went to his staples of Level 5 Leaders, the Hedgehog principle and the Flywheel concept.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important. Very helpful.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Disclosures would include metrics collected through both screens (e.g., Measuring and reporting these employee health metrics is a first step in getting corporations to adopt programs to improve that impact, they say. Several Harvard-affiliated economists argued in a 2010 Health Affairs article that wellness programs produce a 3.27-to-1

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Many of these effects may have long-term consequences, like reduced innovation, that are not captured in short-term financial metrics. During the Great Recession of 2008, companies around the world downsized their workforces.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Yet by virtually every meaningful metric that matters, Apple's users are reliably, revealingly and remarkably more engaged in ecommerce, browsing and apps than their Android counterparts. Where Android jumped from 1.43% of Black Friday shopping traffic in 2010 to 4.92% this year, Apple's iOS pole-vaulted from 3.85% to 18.46%.

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ROE Metrics Download Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

environmental, social and governance) metrics relevant to long-term sustainable corporate performance. billion RMB for an exchange traded fund (ETF) based on sustainability criteria which began trading on the SSE in August 2010. Eccles is a professor of management practice at HBS. Going further, the SSE raised 2.8 Stay tuned.

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Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

And when Allen Printing's bank, facing problems of its own in 2010, suddenly called in its loan, the company was so strapped for cash that it had to file for Chapter 11. Typically a company needs three to five metrics besides revenue to get a quick pulse of how the business is doing. The cost for using this tool is $37.50.)

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Metrics Working Capital Restructuring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

The best business decisions are never ones of strategy, sales, or marketing. Whom we hire, how we manage, and whom we fire have far greater impacts on results than the things we usually think of as driving success. I became the CEO of a manufacturing company in 2010 after a completing management buyout with some outside investors.

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Content Engineering Education Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. This needs to change.

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Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Early results are encouraging.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

There are few credible metrics at any stage of the Indian education system (other than entrance examinations perhaps to a small handful of institutions). As the old saw goes, what is not measured is not managed. Third, there is inadequate measurement.

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