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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. . You just finished reading Moving on from ROI to ROE, a Return on Empathy !

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Not All Metrics Are Created Equal

N2Growth Blog

While the following overview is not by any means exhaustive, it provides a great jumping-off point to fuel productive thought and conversation. Quantitative Performance Drivers : Measurements in this category would be items like revenue hurdles, billable time, utilization, production hurdles and service levels.

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Life In A High-Performing Company – An Insider View

Tanveer Naseer

Indeed, these organizations roughly double industry averages on five-year ROA, ROI and ROE. Strategies, business models, products, and services can all be copied by competitors. From a total rewards standpoint, high performing companies offer their employees a lot. But they also ask for a good bit in return. The Good News 1.

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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. Don't make that mistake. Re-engage with engagement.

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