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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

But that's not the direction that moneyball's metrics have been going. Bill Parcells, the Super Bowl-winning coach, was famous for saying , "You are what your record says you are." No one denies the reality or importance of these organizational phenomena. Today, that's no longer true. You are what the analytics predict you will be.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). Members of the team are given responsibility for a particular metric (either standalone or one part of a larger project). Aren’t you curious how Jeff Bezos did it?

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

And he cautions that trying to apply “conventional retail metrics” will kill any idea “that looks remotely different from what is currently out there.” Many companies have figured out how to parcel out small amounts of money to employees cultivating something new. Invest real money.