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How Leaders Make Business Metrics Meaningful

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Make Business Metrics Meaningful Your blood pressure reading is important. And your business metrics matter – a balanced scorecard, with well-selected key performance indicators, will reinforce your strategy and align actions with goals. What are the most meaningful business metrics you use?

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

It contains concise explanations (without all the jargon) of some of the most popular strategy tools and how to use them. The Strategy Toolkit at the end of the book is not just another nice add-on. It is worth as much as the rest of the book. Second, there are some of the most influential tools from the field of strategy and management.

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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

A revolving leadership door had ushered four CEOs in and out in two years. Having agreed on what should be fixed and on a vision for the future, the team’s next workshop a few months later got more specific about how they would achieve it. They also created a scorecard to measure their performance against each objective.

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

“In reading the book, I’m struck that the author spends time focusing on HOW to achieve maximum benefit from each of the six interdependent Disciplines, and not just providing a laundry list without explanation.” ” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). ” (Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO).

CTO 101
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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. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. One dimension of this is the needed flows of talent.

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Effective Meeting Models

CO2

This annual strategic review and planning meeting may take as long as a week (because you will be pre-deciding how to act should certain key assumptions come to pass), but when done well it leads to a more purposeful and energized commitment to the future. The post Effective Meeting Models appeared first on Elements of Leadership.

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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.