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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

We can't get something for nothing, and agility requires that managers change the culture. When managers do not change the culture, they cannot reap all the benefits of agility. But when managers cannot change and, as a result, do not change the culture? And use the flow metrics so you can see progress.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Building Balanced Cultures. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Putting the 'Customer' in 'Service Optimization' - Think customers.

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Though many companies approach service and support as just another metric to be maximized, those that emphasize quality over call times differentiate themselves from the competition and excel in customer satisfaction. Gartner & 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Awards. Mobile Marketing. Sales Effectiveness. Social Media. Voice of the Customer.

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Help Employees Innovate By Giving Them the Right Challenge

Harvard Business

Companies trying to create a culture of innovation often seem to rely on office decor like ping-pong tables tables or multi-colored bean-bag chairs, or one-off events like hackathons. Vincent Tsui for HBR. But most of us who want to be more innovative would like to do so in our day-to-day work. What should we be focusing on?

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We Don’t Need Political Solutions for Global Trade — We Need Practical Ones

Harvard Business

These capabilities might seem like nice things to have, the metrics useful to measure. All of this was foreshadowed in 2007, by Harvard economist Dani Rodrik , whose “trilemma of the world economy” predicted that it would be impossible to pursue globalization while maintaining nation states and democratic government.

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