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Start Here: Four Ways to Increase Your Productivity

Joseph Lalonde

Image by Karen Roe. Productivity does not mean doing a million things at once. Productivity means that any given job gets done in a reasonable amount of time because you are focused and organized. Productivity means that any given job gets done in a reasonable amount of time because you are focused and organized.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause.

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Moving on from ROI to ROE, a Return on Empathy

Strategy Driven

Those making this shift will gain a significant ROE – Return on Empathy. Companies have increasingly embraced the role of emotion in selling products and services, but often merely pay lip service to its importance, without understanding how to harness it. He is the author of the book, Empathetic Marketing published by Palgrave.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

What is Return on Equity (ROE)? Unlike ROA, you want the ROE to be as high as possible, but there are limitations. Knight explains that “one company may have a higher ROE than another company because it borrowed more money and therefore has greater liabilities and proportionately less equity invested in the company.

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Don't Confuse Engagement with User Experience

Harvard Business Review

While it's completely understandable why designers, product managers and marketers might conflate them, reality suggests that a great user experience doesn't necessarily generate engagement any more than meaningful engagement inherently assures a great user experience.

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When Entitlement Meets Unemployment

Harvard Business Review

I just came across a CNN story about how new hires at marketing agency Euro RSCG told their CEO that they want to come in at 10 or later, have free food and a Pilates room, and get reimbursed for their personal trainers. Offer your employer superior ROE — return on employee. Take the first decent job that's offered to you.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” It would implement targets linked to shareholder value, including ROE and ROIC.