Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. Standing Out In A Crowd of Leadership Experts. 16:21] The impact of writing articles for Forbes.com. [17:46]

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

It is tempting to regard artificial intelligence as a threat to human leadership. There is no reason to believe that leadership will be spared the impact of AI. A shift from the hard to soft elements of leadership is not exclusive to the AI age. Insight Center. Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

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.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. They confidently seize opportunities.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’ve got your heart set on consulting, this article is for you. In addition, Economics degrees are highly theoretical – which often doesn’t equate to the very specific, actionable and data-driven consulting culture. We also recommend taking a leadership position in your math club on campus.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

According to its annual report, those include financial metrics such as “attributable profit; underlying EBIT (earnings before interest and taxation); and total shareholder return (share price and dividends which are assumed to be reinvested).” ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The tradeoff, however, is that we’ve become so focused on using the technology (as this HBR article points out) that we spend far less time listening to individual human stories. We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The Empathy Index seeks to answer the question: Which companies are successfully creating empathetic cultures? We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. This year we added a carbon metric. Methodology.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Co-produced by our three organizations, the survey gauged nearly 28,000 business leaders across industries about the state and trajectory of leadership. Implement leadership planning models.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

After experimenting with a number of potential behavioral metrics, we settled on using one that approximates average weekly working hours as our primary measure. Both of these data points served as calls to action to senior leadership to invest more into creating a culture of both engagement and productivity.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

Tuck takes leadership seriously. In fact, every student is required to come up with a personal leadership development program. Harvard Business School could probably more aptly be named Harvard Leadership School, as the goal of molding future leaders permeates every course offering at HBS. Average signing bonus: $27,508.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. See your leadership team as an agile Scrum that prioritizes the backlog based on importance, then tackles them in sequence until completed. The CEO and his leadership team share a joint table. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

For most organizations, it’s calibrated to drive sales, which means sales conversions are the primary metric it follows. In my experience, relationship leadership boils down to three essential components. Assigning metrics that measure relationship activity. Find metrics that measure relationship health, not just sales.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This is why health care leaders need to focus on aligning innovation with existing cultural values, and devote more time to explaining how new processes and behaviors will allow employees to better enact their values and deliver high quality care. Engrained cultural norms and power relationships about speaking up needed to be shaken (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Commercially available tools, such as culture IQ polls, sample groups of employees through a smartphone app on a daily or weekly basis to generate real-time insights. What is the cause and effect of specific types of investment — for example, leadership development, large group events, and communications cascades?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

When it comes to changing clinician behavior, leaders have to think more broadly about the local organizational culture clinicians work in. Relying too heavily on financial incentives to boost performance can often lead to gaming of metrics (e.g., A Stronger Focus on Culture. What the Research Says.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. And Marc Benioff of Salesforce said, “Diversity is an important part of our culture of equality. For example, Gap Inc.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e., Establish models, not just metrics.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

But just as rental houses are often given minimal maintenance, leaders of acquired firms brought in only the minimum leadership necessary. This shift means that PE firms’ approaches to talent and leadership must also change. a condo development, apartment building, or golf course).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Metrics Are Not Your Friends. A growing body of evidence shows that ethical companies outperform financially over time , but trying to translate such a broad finding into the short-term planning metrics used by most businesses is perilous. There are (at least) three major flaws with it. Let’s be clear.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We went in with a few hypotheses about why fewer women ended up in senior positions than men: Perhaps women had fewer mentors, less face time with managers, or weren’t as proactive as men in talking to senior leadership. The metric we used for this is called weighted centrality. What Companies Can Do About It.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

An interesting title of an article about how the author helps his company’s clients, isn’t it? Leadership, or the lack thereof, is the top reason management people switch jobs (not money). While I can’t comment on the culture in all companies, I do know that many small family-owned businesses have owners who are coasting.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. Data science for machines: here the consumers of the output are computers which consume data in the form of training data, models, and algorithms.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

.” This not only reinforced the company’s desired identity as an entertainment brand but also helped seed the “SHOW” acronym that summarized its desired brand-led culture: S for smile and greet the guest. H for hear their story. O for own the experience. W for “wow” the guest.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

The next layer of books and articles will help you scale these practices to 10, 50, or 500 teams. Agile espouses collaboration, customer centricity, team-based culture, and continuous improvement. This is exactly what the leadership teams at ING did. Consider the cautionary example of a large bank I recently worked with.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. Along with Reed Hastings, Netflix’s founder and CEO, she wrote a PowerPoint presentation on Netflix culture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Building Balanced Cultures. Metrics emphasized speed. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We also had open questions in our surveys to give people an opportunity to express their concerns related to leadership, operations, compensation, and staffing. Each of these teams went through the same team development program as my senior leadership team. The feedback could be tough at times.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Facebook runs security engagement programs year-round, but the most important tool in our arsenal is Hacktober, an annual, monthlong tradition each October designed to build and maintain a security-conscious culture. One of the best examples of this is our Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Additionally, impractical and quickly outmoded high level P&L management can be supplanted by performance metrics that stress driving value for every critical part of the enterprise. Manage costs — or add value?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Two metrics we use to provide a proxy of active working time per week are utilization and after-hours time. It’s an imperfect metric, but does provide a good directional sense of working norms. The results were illuminating. Managers lead by example when it comes to working hours. Lastly, managers are engaged at work, too.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Candidate centers must provide information including detailed clinical protocols, surgical-patient selection criteria, clinical registry participation (more on that below), information on multidisciplinary shared decision-making, as well as institutional and physician-level performance metrics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

They are often the first to recognize and raise up areas of improvement, and it’s important that leadership is ready to listen. Leadership must ensure these team members feel empowered and understand their role in helping the company achieve its long-term sustainability goals.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

For sector and company screening, the data provider CB Insights helps develop information-rich company profiles, visualize competitive dynamics and uncover nonfinancial performance metrics. Indeed, integration of digital assets is a huge, thorny problem fraught with cultural issues. Digital disruption will only intensify.

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