Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 27, 2014

It became harder to talk about balanced scorecards. Nothing makes me sadder than watching managers who believe in a cause or a guy completely reverse their point of view when someone above has a different opinion. Everyone wished they had the same latitude to help that guy. 5 Ways Your Team Knows You Have Their Backs.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Second, there are some of the most influential tools from the field of strategy and management. Third, there are tools that I have found valuable in my work with some of the most successful organisations in the world."

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 1, 2011

Dr David P Norton, (co-inventor of the Balanced Scorecard) explains in OutlookBusiness magazine (India) how companies can grow successfully by adopting effective strategy planning and execution. They need to understand that managing strategy is managing change and they may need to be the change agent.

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Earlier this week, James Lawther shared his story of researching change management models in order to expand his toolkit beyond the initial training he had received. Before starting Enclaria, I managed an “executive working group” program for Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 1, 2011

Dr David P Norton, (co-inventor of the Balanced Scorecard) explains in OutlookBusiness magazine (India) how companies can grow successfully by adopting effective strategy planning and execution. They need to understand that managing strategy is managing change and they may need to be the change agent.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2014

Scott Cleveland reports that a managing director of the Palladium Group (think: balanced scorecard) conducted a survey that compared two groups, one with and one without a formal strategy execution process in place.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 6, 2016

If there are 27 metrics on your balanced scorecard, trust me, they are not all created equal. 5- Prioritize Peers Most managers understand the importance of supporting their team and making their boss look good. There’s nothing better you can do to enhance your brand than having a long track record of success. .

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Kaplan and Dr. David P.

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, the main cause of strategic planning failure is poor execution. These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan. If you aren’t sure, you’re not alone.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Kaplan and Dr. David P.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 4, 2011

Scott Cleveland reports that a managing director of the Palladium Group (think: balanced scorecard) conducted a survey that compared two groups, one with and one without a formal strategy execution process in place.

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Six Disciplines

JUNE 7, 2011

You already know what Outlook helps you do: your email, your calendar, perhaps you even use it to manage your To-Do lists (tasks) - and your contacts. Project management. Performance management. Time management (time tracking). Measurement (KPIs, balanced scorecard). Meeting management.

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, the main cause of strategic planning failure is poor execution. These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan. If you aren’t sure, you’re not alone.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 30, 2011

According to a report from The Conference Board, the global research and business membership organization, most companies do not have a plan to manage and transfer knowledge and even fewer factor cross-generational challenges into business strategy. The key challenge?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

An update to one of the most successful management tools of all time.

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Six Disciplines

JUNE 4, 2011

Do you use a balanced scorecard, but want to do it within Outlook? How about managing your personal goals and daily activities in Outlook? How about managing your next meeting - not just in Calendar, but with real, defined agenda in Outlook? Do you spend 80% of your time (at work) in Microsoft Outlook? I'm not surprised.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

So BDAI is pretty useful for management to be able to see where we are and where we might be headed. He has been instrumental in developing enterprise operating systems for EOS Worldwide, Accenture, and The Balanced Scorecard Institute. BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

It’s no coincidence that my transition to change practitioner included balanced scorecards to measure strategy execution. Examples: levels of management, alignment, who makes decisions. What percentage of department managers has taken ownership of the change? Examples: cycle time, error/success rate.

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Change Starts Here

JULY 9, 2013

By the end of 2011, the company had gained some ground, but it was clear a change in management style and better decisions at the top would not be enough to realize the improvements that were needed to turn the company around. They also created a scorecard to measure their performance against each objective.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“Harpst's book is the first book I’ve read that takes the best education from (Good To Great, E-Myth Manager, others) and combines them into one book. Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). Not so much “read”, as “used.” ” (Ethan Johnson, The Vision Thing).

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CO2

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Monthly staff meetings are usually reserved for reviewing financial performance, balance scorecard objectives, and major actions that have been forecasted in the annual strategic planning meetings. Focus Teamwork at Work Meeting Management' Monthly Staff Meetings. It’s an opportunity to assess what is working and what isn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins. But in truth businesses rarely focus on only profitability; most strive to satisfy various stakeholders and meet the goals of balanced scorecards. Why is it that?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard." The Balanced Scorecard's primary form of novelty is that it takes into account the intangible assets that are so crucial for information-age companies. "Creative accounting" is really bad. Except when it's good.

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We all like to make good decisions. We want our boss to see that we exercise sound judgment. We want to appear to be astute and rational in order to win the confidence of our people. And, naturally, we want to produce the right outcomes. Decision-making is one of the most critical skills a leader […]. The post Want to Make Better Decisions?

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Fractional Chief Financial Officers (CFO) are in high demand these days. A fractional CFO is a highly qualified business finance professional that your company can hire on a part-time basis.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

My gender consultancy firm, 20-First, has just published its annual Gender Balance Scorecard ( pdf ) of the top 300 companies in the world across the US, Europe and Asia. As usual, we try to broaden the focus from the current buzz around corporate boards to the more relevant metric of the gender balance of executive committees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Town hall meetings are organized, employees are told to change their behavior, balanced scorecards are reformulated, and budgets are set aside to support initiatives that fit the new strategy. A common mistake in the bottom-up implementation process is that many top managers cannot resist doing the selection themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

It might take a scorecard approach for you to figure out that the sales peak coincided with a particular phase in the staff-training schedule. A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

The problem, as I described in my last post , is that six things militate against success in the role: The management team's attention shifts to other priorities. Make the role permanent and incorporate it into overall performance management. Incorporate these measures into the company's "balanced scorecard" or dashboard.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

But business schools, which serve as talent pools for companies that are working on their own gender balance, seem stuck in yesterday’s statistics. Our Gender Balance Scorecard on Business Schools , the first scorecard we’ve done for B-schools , gives an overview of the top 100 schools (Financial Times ranking, 2015).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

Let me begin this post with a personal confession: Although I’ve talked with many managers about career transitions over the years, I’ve never had a career transition myself until now. For the past 37 years I’ve worked as a management consultant at the same firm I started in straight out of graduate school.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

In our research on change agents at the Phoenix Community of FCB Partners , we have found that there are three distinct challenges which require different kinds of change leaders: (1) transformational leaders, (2) innovation instigators, and (3) innovation managers. The Innovation Manager. The Transformational Leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

When I was CEO of Campbell Soup Company, we used a balanced scorecard to create an explicit understanding of each employee in terms of what they were expected to accomplish, including financial objectives, market share objectives and key project objectives. Leave it up to them to smartly manage and execute in the moment.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 27, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism Robert [.].

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