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Tesla Shows How Traditional Business Metrics Are Outdated

Harvard Business

At the core of the confusion over a company like Tesla is that traditional business metrics are outdated and can create overconfidence or underestimation. Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Marriott International: Marriott International is a global hotel chain recognized for its commitment to servant leadership. Furthermore, companies may feel pressure to meet external expectations or standards, such as quarterly earnings targets or market share goals.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

In today’s market, tech platforms enable IP and relationships to scale rapidly, and at near-zero cost. This will require reporting on new metrics. Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital.

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Technology and Wisdom: Where and How Do They Intersect in Life, Work and Play? (Part 2)

Women in Consulting

Her talk was about “the third metric” in measuring success beyond money and power. Oh, and they will pick you up at the airport for free, take you on a tour of Zappos and then back to your hotel. Nicely done marketing! She was insightful, real, vulnerable and inspiring.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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The triumph of everyday design

Seth Godin Blog

The top of the market was the place people who cared needed to go to buy something that had the highest performance. I spent some time at a high-end hotel on a recent gig. And the market is demanding better design--which is easy to copy and easy to improve. Expensive is not the relevant metric, utility is. 

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Engaging Employees Starts with Remembering What Your Company Stands For

Harvard Business

It’s also more than “internal marketing” or “invertising,” which describe when an organization promotes its brand to employees as it would to customers and expects them to “buy” the message it’s trying to “sell” to them.

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