HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What excites me about S&B at Audible is that we work to improve the lives of those without privilege in the cities and countries in which we operate, because Audible seeks to exemplify what a company can mean beyond what it does. We believe in giving people a chance, and we work to make this so, particularly in the urban core.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

What excites me about S&B at Audible is that we work to improve the lives of those without privilege in the cities and countries in which we operate, because Audible seeks to exemplify what a company can mean beyond what it does. We believe in giving people a chance, and we work to make this so, particularly in the urban core.

Diversity 52

Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The statesman keeps commitments, is motivated by service above and beyond self, and by making a lasting difference. It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read!

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Blog Succession Influence Brand 416

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Good parents have the same qualities as servant leaders – they are committed, focused, loving, caring, empathetic, and are present without losing sight of the future. Rather, a team is a commitment to work together despite differences of opinion. link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment and kind words John.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. Creating transparency into its operations is the starting point for marketing to help CFOs understand where and how value is being gained or lost, which makes budgeting discussions much more productive.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Charan has turned his attention to these organization dynamics in response to CEOs recognizing that technology, operations, access to financial capital, and even strategic positioning statements are less differentiating than their organization’s ability to respond to opportunities. This is both unfair and simplistic.

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Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Berwick presented the report from the independent National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England ( A Promise to Learn — A Commitment to Act: Improving the Safety of Patients in England ) to Prime Minister David Cameron in London. Their attention was on their finances — understandable and even appropriate these days.

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Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track.

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Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

At Esquel Group, we have been committed to this philosophy over the last three decades and are trying to promote it beyond our corporate boundary. Cold" metrics of monetary return are giving way to "warm" metrics of non-monetary return such as happiness, satisfaction, and influence.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Because the new data analytics horizons typically span a range of functions, including marketing, risk, and operations, the C-suite evolution may take a variety of paths. The possibility of failure is high when companies don’t commit senior leadership. Building frontline capabilities.

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Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The cost of equipping a ship and maintaining a base of operations in what is now Indonesia, and the conservatism of the directors, meant no rewards for the shareholders. The question is whether that’s really the only metric we should be paying attention to. Boards China Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. These situations involved complex assignments focusing on strategy, product development, business operations, and financial management. Too often, their ambitions are thwarted.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2016

Transforming a sales organization to consistently deliver insights requires new value propositions, case studies and collateral from Marketing, new competencies, skill development, recruiting profiles from HR, and alignment with Operations to refine products and services.

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Metrics Marketing Strategy Case Study 50

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Creating effective pay structures is a serious responsibility however many businesses still hold back from fully committing to the endeavor. Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation not only reflect a healthy work culture , they also allow employees to commit better to their roles.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wasn’t nearly as dazzled by Jim’s statistics and metrics as I was his outlook on life. This sharing speaks much of your generosity and commitment to raising the bar in leadership that our world truly deserves. Jim went to his staples of Level 5 Leaders, the Hedgehog principle and the Flywheel concept. More power!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The cloud is also a common repository for the collection and analysis of new data, and the place where an increasing number of artificial intelligence operations, like image and speech recognition, are conducted.

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Management Software BPM Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

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Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

To the firm, I was the “ ideal worker ” — a phrase sociologists use to describe a problematic archetype of a fully committed employee with no personal “entanglements.” You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 14

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. Greg Linnemanstons Commit to knowing your target personas. You must commit to the long-run and be willing to experiment, measure, and adjust as needed. No answer) 10.

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