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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Addresses how to ensure your company has the right governance, performance measurement, and internal discussions to encourage value-creating decisions. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Effectively applies the theory of value creation to our economy.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

But in truth businesses rarely focus on only profitability; most strive to satisfy various stakeholders and meet the goals of balanced scorecards. Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served. However, they are not as strategic in their thinking about how to capture value.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. If you want to conduct an employee survey, ask business stakeholders about its relevance and how to do it. But it must be HR that decides how things are done, based on the professional knowledge and insights only HR people will have.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

Comments The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises (Larry Prusak, Brook Manville, and Tom Davenport are at work on a book on judgment and how to cultivate it as an organizational, not just individual, strength.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

More on: Managing yourself , Morale , Work life balance Join the Discussion | More by This Author | Email/Share Previous The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement Next How to Turn Garbage into Gold Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. So heres how to craft your own reflection items. On the odd occasion most boardrooms reflect, reflection often starts with "how." If thats what to reflect on, here are a few tips for how to reflect better. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation. Typically, these executives focus on the "what" and the "what if" and not the "how," which of course is the realm of process people. But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation.

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