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Using the Right Performance Metrics: Watch out for P&Ls

Kates Kesler

Metrics serve as a powerful motivator and unfortunately, are often perfectly designed to drive sub-optimal results. For a simple comparison, consider this sports team analogy. In team sports, measuring vital, non-point metrics and de-emphasizing individual metrics is not a new concept.

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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. These alumni have gone on to become VCs, founders, and product leaders, in addition to starting APM programs at companies like Salesforce.

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Steps to Redesign Your Customer Experience

LSA Global

The steps to redesign your customer experience typically lead to new ways to interact with customers, new product and service offerings, and new ways of thinking and behaving that haven’t been considered before. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. Because hospitals receive substantial governmental revenues, they make public their operating data, which we needed to calculate productivity. There are thousands of U.S.

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Measuring Your Employees’ Invisible Forms of Influence

Harvard Business

Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential. New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. For comparison, the employee sample identified as low performers had an average network size of 20.

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What the Data Tells Us About Immigrant Executives in the U.S.

Harvard Business

Less research, however, has been done on the presence of migrant and immigrant leadership in corporate America. — for example the study of the ethnic composition of boards in corporate America by Richie Zweigenhaft — studies of immigrant leadership talent are still scarce. executive leadership. As of 2009, U.S.

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Bringing Selfless Love Into The Workplace

Organizational Talent Consulting

Unfortunately, there is likely no other leadership habit as rare in the workplace. The following short video from leadership guru Ken Blanchard provides some thoughts on the power of servant leadership in today's workplace. A servant leadership style aligns well with selfless love.

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