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Paradise By The Green Dashboard Light – A Leadership Short Story

Terry Starbucker

Of the 8 core principles of More Human leadership , it’s #6 - Measuring, monitoring and managing with the right metrics - that presents the biggest “nuts and bolts” challenge to any leader. The answer, as this leadership short story shows, is to think green. Lead well! That’s where we need to look”.

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One CEO???s Reflections On Measuring Impact And Purpose

Tanveer Naseer

” For-profit leaders looking to develop an advantageous social impact strategy should simply turn towards looking at successful non-for-profits for guidance. No single metric can tell the real story of impact. No metric illuminates the impact on a human soul touched by the efforts of an effective organization.

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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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How to Help Process Owners Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Each process owner has key cross-functional metrics to manage, such as cash-to-cash cycle time, forecast accuracy, and percent of orders received on time to demand. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. Make the process owner accountable for how well the process performs.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point. HR strategy is an expertise that takes years to fully develop.”. That needs to change.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. They are then reviewed by the company’s Manufacturing Leadership Council.