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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

They are not a leader because their position entitles them to be; they see leadership as a verb, a skill to continue to develop and hone. For example I have a growth mindset about my career but I have a fixed mindset about the upsides of parachuting from a perfectly flyable aeroplane! A growth mindset means they operate with: 1.

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Are You a Monday Morning Quarterback?

Strategy Driven

It’s a lot like closing the barn door after the horse escaped or, in my own example, Monday morning quarterbacking. Let’s use the sales department as an example, as it has the greatest opportunity to affect any company’s profitability. Territory Development. Executing a Formal Sales Process. Building Relationships.

KPI 50
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Do Your Business Process Metrics Measure Up?

Strategy Driven

Make Metrics Visible and Accessible – Having workers, managers, supervisors, and executives see metrics helps employees make decisions and take action. If only executives see them on a monthly dashboard, it is too infrequent, too late, and too inaccessible. So you need to discuss that with the Process Owner and Executive Sponsor.

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13 Challenges to the Current State of Leadership

CoachStation

As highlighted in one of the points below, to develop in this space is a choice – yours, not someone elses. When coaching leaders, self-awareness and the development of comfort in seeing things as they are, not as we would like to see them is the first, big barrier to overcome in almost every case.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves. Consider, for example, the obsessive get-it-done-now! executive whose 360-degree performance reviews point to a brusque and alienating communication style. Insight Center.

KPI 8
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AI Is Going to Change the 80/20 Rule

Harvard Business Review

Novel workplace analytics, for example, mean more organizations can more readily identify the 20% of employees contributing 80% of value to a product, process, or user experience. Fewer than 10% of drinkers, for example, account for over half the hard liquor sold. Pareto’s “vital few” becomes a “vital fewer.”

KPI 8
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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

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. The challenge for executives is, of course, to manage their conflicting goals, or so-called trade-offs. Why is it that? That might sound strange.