Seth Godin Blog

JULY 25, 2018

If you had a factory job, it wasn’t your job to worry about productivity. And yet, we hardly talk about productivity. Productivity is the amount of useful output created for every hour of work we do. What’s the most productive choice? Since his workers were more productive, he could charge less for the car.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

TDIndustries: TDIndustries is a construction and facilities services company that has embraced servant leadership. Set goals and metrics: After your assessment, with an open mind review your strengths and weaknesse. It is important to also set goals and metrics for implementing servant leadership.

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LSA Global

JUNE 30, 2021

A Blow to Productivity When you walk away from a meeting and confide that you don’t agree with the decisions made (and yet didn’t speak up at the time), you set up a pattern that undermines team cohesion. To Have More Constructive Conversations. And it undermines the trust team members need to have in each other to be open and honest.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 23, 2017

Then be sure you have clear, accurate, fair, meaningful, aligned, timely and achievable success metrics. Show that you are ready to invest in their development by providing constructive feedback and targeted learning plans tied to their career development aspirations. High performing employees expect to be held accountable.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 23, 2017

Then be sure you have clear, accurate, fair, meaningful, aligned, timely and achievable success metrics. Show that you are ready to invest in their development by providing constructive feedback and targeted learning plans tied to their career development aspirations. High performing employees expect to be held accountable.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

Instead of infrequent, subjective evaluations based largely on “time on task,” Ryan now has managers, employees, and teams develop a set of agreed-upon performance metrics that are consistently tracked. A fitness wristband can track how long you sit in your desk chair.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Employees aren’t necessarily driven by the same intrinsic interest that the entrepreneur has for the product or, indeed, by the business’s profitability. But I don’t believe that purpose is a meaningless construct. ” Now they’re both metrics. Much has been written about organizational purpose.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. Many leading companies such as Airbnb, Spotify, Google, Amazon and Microsoft have adopted Agile as a way of managing innovation and product development.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

As this battle intensifies, even the titans themselves may not have the necessary metrics to accurately gauge their relative dominance. Such a representation is constructed based on an individual, object, or asset’s interactions with its environment. Yet this is where the digital world is taking us. What Is a Digital Replica?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Now that the administrative data on the delivered care is trustworthy, episodes of care can be constructed that longitudinally track a soldier’s care and identify and measure potential safety risks. These productivity reports are shared with all providers, promoting transparency across the health care system.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

During their evaluations, they’ll typically ask themselves two questions: Is your product or service better than alternatives, and, equally important, can their people work with you and your organization? Because of this, it will take more than great analysis, a superior product, or a performance improvement to clinch a deal.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The country’s ranking in dealing with construction permits (181) and enforcing contracts (164) is particularly bad. Industry cluster metrics measure the size of the pool of potential customers for B2B or B2C companies, and market stability metrics measure institutional, business, and social stability.)

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In most work settings individual performance is not easily observed, in part because our performance is a joint product that reflects both our own effort and that of many others. Employees reduce their productivity when consistently reminded of what they perceive as unfair rewards. But herein lies the challenge.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Lastly, this group may be more attuned to individual interests (including performance metrics and compensation incentives) rather than the collective and longer-term needs of the firm. Or the circle might ask what new products or services the company could capably provide to maneuver into an entirely new marketplace.

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

However, there are very few metrics to really measure this. And the available metrics, at least on a company level, are not very forward-looking for decision-makers or people who want to invest. So, we, as a society, have to decide to invest in more sustainable products.

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NeoAcademic

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the way, I’m defining “trustworthy” as based upon empirical data, reporting a transparent ranking methodology, and where a reasonable argument could be made for construct validity of “program quality.” Most of these are based on nonsensical metrics (e.g., ” Without further ado, here is the list.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

History suggests that the main way information technology changes management is through changes in how information is gathered: the large-scale analysis of Operations Research reflected painstaking data collection around a few metrics, which were transferred to punch cards. How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

At the same time, cyber risks are peculiar not only to the defense industry, they’re common within medical, IT, construction, and other sectors. EVA encompasses three key indicators: Planned Value: This metric outlines the expected amount of work scheduled to be completed by a specific stage of the project timeline.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

We found widespread agreement that having great products and services and being a “good corporate citizen” are table stakes in a world of empowered citizens and consumers. ” Eric Reynolds, CMO of Clorox, also sees purpose enhancing planning as a construct for decision-making.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. To construct our Corporate Horizon Index, we identified five financial indicators, selected because they matched up with five hypotheses we had developed about the ways in which long- and short-term companies might differ.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Advanced materials and new construction methods were bringing far greater complexity to manufacturing processes. Product innovations (such as sensors in athletic shoes to detect incipient injury) could add additional layers of complexity. How to deal with a production process that is drifting out of spec falls into this category.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. Leaders set the tone. It all starts at the top.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

The grand vision at the heart of his last project is now being unveiled as Apple finalizes construction on Apple Park. When it comes to Apple Park, however, the metrics used to measure the reported $5 billion investment appear more complex and nuanced. That there is no childcare center. Everything else was secondary.”

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Selling productized consulting. As a consultant, your product is your advice. He said he did a quick Internet search for ‘ag equipment product design’ and we were in the top few results. What were the KPI’s or metrics achieved to show that the project was a success? Selling Productized Consulting.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It has long championed inclusion as a partial solution to business challenges like turnover, productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Feedback is frequent and detailed, and constructive criticism is encouraged in the problem-solving process. Deloitte was recently named one of the best workplaces for women. Career Growth.

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