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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1438-1446. Kouzes, J., & & Posner, B.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. If you are unsure where to begin, research-based books and articles like those mentioned and cited in this post can be great resources. What kind of leaders should they be?

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business

Critics outside of CareMore issued an ugly forecast: Our resource-intensive approach to care would never survive on Medicaid’s meager reimbursement levels. As a result of our collaborative behavioral-health model, over 75% of patients who saw CareMore’s behavioral health team in Iowa in 2017 also saw our primary care team.

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How to Set More-Realistic Growth Targets

Harvard Business

Spreadsheets were developed, resources were marshaled, budgets were approved, and the work began. Note that the table implicitly projects limited investment and a slow start to the new growth initiatives, with no new revenues in 2017, modest new revenues in 2018, and significant new revenues really only beginning in 2020 and 2021.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

Our publicly available metrics including CEO approval ratings from staff, ratio of women on boards, and number of accounting infractions and scandals. This year we added a carbon metric. Additional geographies, including Africa, will be added in the next report, in March 2017.

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