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How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance

Prudent Pedal

Preparation: Your marketing leader will do most of the prep for this meeting. Annual Review Questions: How did you perform in meeting the needs of our partner requests? Ask questions about production efficiency, turnaround times, collateral organization/dissemination, and costs. Culture and organizational effectiveness.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. They also continuously rework processes to better meet client needs, reduce waste, boost productivity, and move faster to stay ahead of competitors. Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration?

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. So what he mostly needed was hub-and-spoke, one-on-one leadership, through weekly individual meetings, supplemented by periodic group get-togethers.

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

Did you just show up at the sales meeting? Option A was the best logical option, but it was also a tough sell, given the culture of the organization. Option B was 80% as good as Option A, but had no cultural resistance. The servers we wanted had a two-week turnaround time. Did you find and close all $10 million in sales?

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. One effective way is to work on culture. Box 2 muscle requires a culture where honest Box 2 questions are encouraged.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved.

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