Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Here are examples from 2 recent client meetings: Prioritize the top tactics for a key strategy : Purpose : Decide the top 2 tactics to be executed by 7/1/2021 for Strategy 1; Process : Take our current list of the top 6 tactics and prioritize those to the top 2 that have to be done immediately and why; Outcome : The plan for the 2 top tactics including (..)

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Library Tactics Letter Metrics 91

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

In today’s post I’ll look at the topic of resourcing as a key success metric for anyone in a leadership position. The essence of Leadership is not found in doing things yourself, but in teaching others how to do things better than you ever could. Leadership is about teaching, coaching, developing, and mentoring.

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Resources Leadership CEO Fashion 321

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

You might call this a North Star tactic , calling on people in an organization to habitually look up from daily minutiae to reorient themselves to their ultimate destination.”. It helps too to look past typical metrics to see what is actually happening long-term. Look Beyond Near-Term Targets.

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Long-term Short-term Metrics Rogers 221

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Senior leadership must champion any new initiative. It must be actionable through focused tactical implementation.

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Leadership Competitive Advantage Due Diligence Short-term 397

Terry Starbucker

JULY 29, 2012

At those moments there’s a natural tendency to immediately start forging ahead – after all, YOU are all up to speed on the vision, the plan, and now, the strategies and tactics that will be needed to get to the mountaintop. Alignment is not a leadership assumption , as the impatient parts of our brain may love to think.

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Tactics Fashion Metrics Planning 298

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Ask how your plan and its component pieces will measure strategic objectives against metrics and outcomes, time and resources. Keeping your strategic objective constant, ask whether different tactics can lower the cost or raise the prospects of success. Then ask everyone to challenge you, your logic, your goals, or your tactics.

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Groupthink Objective Long-term Tactics 237

Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

No amount of tactical change management training will substitute for having an entire organization that has a clear vision of goals, shared responsibility, and personal accountability to achieve results. At best practice organizations, these success metrics are included in individuals’ annual performance goals.

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Management Early Adopters Metrics ROI 150

CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

Failure to Focus On Strategy The senior leadership team will often spend less than an hour a month reviewing and discussing the strategic plan. The strategic plan is an important document that provides clear strategies and tactics to significantly improve the company’s performance, yet no one talks about it.

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Strategic Planning Balanced Scorecard Planning Kotter 78

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

They use the term ‘metrics’ out of context. Their metrics are arbitrary, and they jerk the chains of sellers with figures that are unsubstantiated. Metrics are easily skewed and do not reflect the overall customer satisfaction. There’s this thing that websites do. They arbitrarily disable accounts.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The following six healthcare resume and job search tactics will help you obtain the results you seek: 1. Write a captivating summary, do not use an objective, to showcase your strategic leadership abilities and implementation successes. You just finished reading 6 Proven Tactics to Design an Effective Executive Healthcare Resume !

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

First off, that’s fantastic – leadership is a great calling that can bring you great success and satisfaction on so many levels, both personally and professionally. Execute strategy or tactics that you don’t necessarily agree with personally? Be a teacher as well as a manager?

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Letter Metrics Tactics Construction 150

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2015

Is there a commitment for organizational transformation, not some one-off tactics and silver bullets? Make the Customer Leadership Executive an Officer of the Company Ensure that the CCO is at a peer level of the leaders of the organization. Create continued clarity by having the CCO drive these meetings and steer the process.

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CEO Succession Customer Loyalty Tactics 120

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

An iteration-led approach can move financial metrics up and to the right, but it doesn’t guarantee that you’ll build game-changing products. Good products (and companies) go bad as they become bloated, fragmented, and driven by irrelevant metrics – they catch product diseases that are often fatal to innovation.

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Productivity Products Development Short-term 107

CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

The senior leadership team will often spend less than an hour a month reviewing and discussing the strategic plan. The strategic plan is an important document that provides clear strategies and tactics to significantly improve the company’s performance, yet no one talks about it. Failure to Focus On Strategy.

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Strategic Planning Balanced Scorecard Planning Kotter 60

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovative service is different from business as usual—it never follows the current of the latest fad, gimmick, or “me too” tactic. Are metrics so restrictive that employees feel leaders are “pulling up plants to determine if they are growing?” Employees may feel vulnerable due to past practices.

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Innovation Compliance Guidelines Metrics 171

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The book " Leadership Conversations " by Alan S. For more on the new role of leadership, go to: [link]. Berson: Leadership Conversations: Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders. A Leadership Paradigm Shift. Berson and Richard G. Suspend your expertise. Monitor your own beliefs. Source: Alan S.

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Open-book Objective Metrics Tactics 178

HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2021

2] But in today’s dynamic environment, even retrospective metrics and measurements offer limited value. For example, traditional diversity metrics (e.g.,

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Human Capital Trends Globalization Attrition 105

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    I love those articles because they’re great opportunities for data mining on leadership.  A strong leadership point of view is memorable. 

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Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 20, 2020

Leadership: What you do when you (and pretty much everybody around you) have no idea. Without question, this is a time for leadership! In crisis, metrics enhance communication—and communication is everything!

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Executive Coaching Crisis Execution Long-term 78

LDRLB

APRIL 28, 2020

But as it turned out, O’Neill’s mind was still very much intact—and it was focused not only on the right metrics. Part of leadership,” O’Neill once explained, “…is to create a crisis.”. It’s my failure of leadership. Journalists were drafting their articles on how the new Alcoa CEO had lost his mind. But also, the right fight.

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Crisis Hotels Motivation Industry 131

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

It has definitely caused its fair share of angst, frustration, and vigorous debate among executives and professional advisors simply for the reason that it is one of the few metrics that touches virtually every aspect of a business.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance.

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How To Learning-by-Doing Books System 119

LDRLB

APRIL 28, 2020

But as it turned out, O’Neill’s mind was still very much intact—and it was focused not only on the right metrics. Part of leadership,” O’Neill once explained, “…is to create a crisis.”. It’s my failure of leadership. Journalists were drafting their articles on how the new Alcoa CEO had lost his mind. But also, the right fight.

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Crisis Hotels Motivation Industry 78

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Susan Fowler is a thought leader on discipline and self-leadership. She outlines how to rid yourself of failed motivational tactics and shares ways to go beyond discipline, willpower, and goal setting. “In a world crying out for effective leadership, I think we need to begin with an obvious source: ourselves.”

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Motivation Energy Learning-by-Doing Quality 85

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

I recently spoke with the CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing company about his new CFO who was poised to attend our flagship program for senior executives, Leadership at the Peak. By coming to Leadership at the Peak , this CFO had — with some encouragement and initial trepidation — chosen the latter approach. No one turned a head.

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Charisma CFO CEO Execution 65

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

They do annual planning to establish specific Vital Goals (top goals), make goals personal so everyone knows how they contribute and create Predictive Behaviors and metrics that are communicated habitually. This is a tough skill to master, but when this leadership behavior is committed to, taught, and modeled, the outcomes will be magic.

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Power Goal Objective Planning 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. The first type is known as tactical performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. Overdoing Tactical Performance. ” Of course, being too adaptive can also hurt tactical performance.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

You attitudes and behaviors are the biggest differentiators for leadership success. The four well researched core emotional intelligence metrics of: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness and Relationship Management are directly correlated with successful or failing leadership. About the Author.

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Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 16, 2014

Especially on that day when the Big Leadership Mistake hits you. You did everything right – the right plan, the right values, the right metrics, the right strategy, the right tactics. Some days it’s really hard to be an optimist. You worked hard, and pushed hard. It was because they knew how to avoid the Big Mistake.

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Team Core Competence Leadership Metrics 375

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Moreover, it’s hard. “I says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). “I I think ideas come from everywhere.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

Take television ratings—the metric by which TV shows live or die in an advertising-supported industry. Whether at the level of whole economies fixating on GDP or corporations trying to nail quarterly earnings targets, managers are being influenced by the wrong metrics and making decisions that actually leave us worse off.

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Meyer Leadership Metrics Apparel 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Execution Strategy Team Succession 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

I mean, tactically managed? We collected thousands of data points from sales leaders in various industries regarding which sales metrics they anxiously monitor on their dashboards, from top-line revenue growth down to the number of sales calls made per month. Sales Activities are the metrics that can actually be managed.

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Metrics Management Objective Tactics 8