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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. Take the following six-question survey to determine and benchmark your likelihood of experiencing gratitude.

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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

The productivity of a researcher can be evaluated using an index such as the h-index. In business, productivity and performance is often measured using financial ratios that can be used to compare firms across the industry. By adding a reference point one can better understand the impact and significance of the metrics.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies. One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management.

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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

Bank’s Income Statement It’s important to note that banks have diverse product offerings and client types, and the reporting of business lines such as retail banking, wholesale banking, and wealth management can vary between different banks. The interest rate set by the central bank serves as a benchmark or reference rate for banks.

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Inflation: Understanding its Impact on the Economy

Tom Spencer

Inflation, which refers to a general increase in the price of goods and services, results in a reduction in the purchasing power of money over time. For example, the Federal Reserve aims to achieve 2% inflation as an ideal benchmark to avoid its counterpart, deflation. Since 2008, the rate of inflation in the U.S.

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Retail Bank Operational and Digital Leaders Reap the Rewards

BCG

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. We refer to these banks as the “premier league.”

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Dancing here refers to engaging, supporting, and communicating with employees in multiple ways. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people?