Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 11, 2018

It’s a largely solved engineering problem. The difference comes down to management vs. leadership. Car factories are measured and managed. Management is an act of authority and compliance, and in the controlled setting of a factory, it works. Most of us aren’t trying to solve an engineering problem.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. For that reason, management consultants form the vast majority in the advisory branch – more than half of all advisors can be defined as a management consultant.

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Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In addition, Economics degrees are highly theoretical – which often doesn’t equate to the very specific, actionable and data-driven consulting culture. Engineering (Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused). Now granted, not all engineering degrees are created equal. The knock on engineering?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

What about the 10% of leaders who manage to effectively execute their strategies? Cultural Alignment – The “How”. Strategies must go through culture and people to get implemented. Workplace cultures must be purposefully aligned with the business strategy to set the stage for high performance.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. Even the HR executives managing the space were surprised by their bonhomie. Notable visitors include Mark Zuckerberg.) Who uses them?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Building Balanced Cultures. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Procedia Engineering.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Culture : Is the work environment healthy or toxic? It has an academic culture focused on continuous improvement.Intellectual rigor and factual analysis skills are vital components of success, as is a can-do attitude with an optimistic focus. Hours are long, and the culture can be demanding. Employee Satisfaction. Diversity.

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine. In particular, I’d like to focus on three things Avaya did that other companies can learn from: Treat Innovation as a Risk-Management Exercise. Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

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. If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

Youtuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober illustrated the power of connectivity with a science demonstration, releasing thousands of balloons at once to earn a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records. airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We

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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

JUNE 8, 2018

So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics. Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. Cross-cultural differences.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. In combination, business and operating models define and rank the range of options available to operating managers in making their daily business decisions. Digital operations are built around four pillars.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. ” Metric obsession. Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. Insight center.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

The best acquirers build and manage a community of external experts, relying on them heavily to support diligence in areas that are hard to assess objectively. Indeed, integration of digital assets is a huge, thorny problem fraught with cultural issues. How do you absorb the new entity you acquired without killing it?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

But it’s also the responsibility of the company to cultivate a culture that shuns corner-cutting and prevents it from accumulating into major scandals, ones that damage the credibility of the business, endanger jobs, and threaten the entire enterprise. Take the culture that seems to have bred corner-cutting at Volkswagen.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

It is estimated that in 2014 the world produced some 42 million metric tonnes of e-waste (discarded electrical and electronic equipment and its parts)—with North America and Europe accounting for 8 and 12 million metric tonnes respectively. Build a culture of collective values with customers. Create incentives.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. The results? Think like a startup.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. In other words, they’re a terrific medium and mechanism for transitioning traditional managements to platform perspectives. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Most companies manage projects in terms of outputs, not outcomes. Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. This is the bind that executives and managers face.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2017

We’ve learned a lot from our experiences at Twitch, and discovered some best practices for how organizations may implement their own forecasting training programs, create a culture of forecasting, and better anticipate the future. Our engineer was at 75% confidence we’d hit our goal, and our lead from partnerships was at 70%.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have algorithms for recommender systems, merchandise buying, inventory management, relationship management, logistics, operations — we even have algorithms for designing clothes! They work towards clear goals and they are focused on and accountable for achieving certain performance metrics. ” a marketer might ask.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Translators are neither data architects nor data engineers.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run. Instead of merely digitizing magazine content, managers built a number of web-based platforms. Similar to Cosmo , Glamour , and GQ.)

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Creating any kind of cultural transformation requires a long-term commitment, and that expectation should be set from the start across the various stakeholders interested in bringing the organization into the data-driven era. Is real-time web traffic an important metric for the team to keep an eye on?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. As is now well-known, instead of propelling Kodak into the future, the digital camera became a massive missed opportunity.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. However, only one of its senior managers had worked in more than a single business line. What we found was an incredible paradox.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” From digital platforms to customer experience to crisis management , these priorities have been a bellwether for what would soon dominate boardroom discussions and headline business publications.

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