Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. Corporate culture. Evidence of a negative culture would be a strong indicator of a short-term company.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 3, 2020

Most executives ascribed the failure to meet strategic expectations on poor strategic planning and execution. Not Just Another Meeting. Recognize at the outset that your strategy retreat is not just another executive leadership team meeting. Have Clear Meeting Ownership. Tips to Get Strategy Retreat Facilitation Right.

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LSA Global

MAY 27, 2022

Whether it’s due to leadership failings, a toxic work culture , or simply a more competitive job offer, team turnover is bad for business. Use employee exit interviews to gather individual feedback and discern if the issues are piecemeal or systemic. Meet regularly and often to get feedback on what can and cannot be done.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Leaders are intimately involved in the architecture, culture, and metrics of the company, hiring people who can innovate and grow a business and holding them accountable with a minimum of midlevel management. The senior leadership team meets often to look at metrics and trends. Being a CEO is a tough job.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Let’s start with a recent Seattle Executives meeting where five members talked about multi-generation businesses, succession, transition, and selling. The most powerful message came from Brian Quint with Aqua Quip, who sold to Leslie’s Pools a couple years ago (hear more from Brian on his podcast interview with me).

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Here are some questions to ask your recruiter, interviewer or APM coordinator: How long has the APM program been around? There are two key ways to do this: Company culture is a great way to assess the quality and ease of being mentored. Do you feel like it’s easy to meet with people at the company, regardless of their level?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. They believe that they can always raise financial capital to meet their funding shortfall or use company stock or options to pay for acquisitions and employee wages.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

In an agile organization, HR needs to provide the same services it’s always provided — hiring, professional development, performance management — but in ways that are responsive to the ongoing changes in the culture and work style of the organization. Consider the cautionary example of a large bank I recently worked with.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I have now interviewed hundreds of actual entrepreneurs — including founders of Amazon, Apple, Biogen, Boston Scientific, iRobot, Netflix, PayPal, and YouTube — as well as new venture and innovation leaders in large companies like Disney, Target, Toyota, and Coca-Cola. Fly-your-own-plane-to-your-own-private-island-level wealth.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Health systems that want to avoid those pitfalls need leaders who invest in shaping an organizational culture that values hearing patients’ voices. Here are some steps such organizations might take: Share patient stories and related lessons at every meeting. Consider a narrative-medicine component.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 10, 2020

How do you score in all the metrics that might be worth watching, and where specifically are you scoring in the eight most important ones. The fourth is systems to move your environment from a deadline-driven one to a profit-driven one, all without losing the culture that’s important to you. It’s like an interview about them.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

This starts in the interview process when you have the opportunity to articulate your values to prospects during the hiring process. This message is reinforced in meetings, at events, and with various awards for contributing to the culture. One of the metrics they follow is how long it takes to properly greet customers.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

To understand what digital leaders do differently, Korn Ferry not only drew on broad research into business change but also interviewed leaders who are driving transformation at some of the world’s most successful organizations. Ideas and input come from all sides and segments and across all stakeholder groups.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. Defining and tracking success metrics. If not self-aware, a PM may push to prioritize a feature they conceived even when all the customer interviews and evidence is stacked against it. Running design sprints. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

But there is one important difference —managing managers also requires leadership coaching: you have to coach “managers to develop the culture and capabilities that their team members need,” says Linda Hill, professor at Harvard Business School and coauthor of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

“The purpose of the interview is to get the offer,” he says. Next, you need to think about what matters to you in both your professional and private life and then “assess the offer” against these metrics, says Weiss. Cultural fit. Shift your mindset. “Pause, you are starting a new chapter.”

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work?

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2018

As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. ” The new chairman appointed in 2012 sought to improve strategic discussions by “breeding a new culture in the company — in the board, and between the board and the management team.”

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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. Any meeting in front of the whole team can be used to share takeaways.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

How do they stand up to pressure from peers or the expectations of outmoded organizational cultures? ” We conducted 75 semi-structured confidential interviews with leaders in the C-suite or one to three levels below C-suite in both Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations. .”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

To understand the connections and applications, we interviewed over 20 CMOs and CEOs, finding a remarkably similar pattern across a highly diverse set of companies. “We talk purpose at the highest level strategy meetings. “We start with purpose, to transform healthcare, then we map that purpose to goals and metrics.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

They would continue tracking their normal metrics but, for the next few weeks, these metrics wouldn’t impact teams’ compensation. Fintona held launch meetings with all 300 experimenters and handed each one a white lab coat to wear throughout the experiments. Peter Mason/Getty Images. ” Yeah, ouch.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

In our new research , the result of interviews with more than 100 client-side practitioners from a variety of industries, we examine four of the best practices brands can follow to create the most impact with online communities. Unfortunately, there exists no single, magic-bullet metric that satisfies these requirements for every community.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” Many CEOs in our interviews emphasized the importance of choosing the right metrics to support both/and decision making.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

In that same Wired piece: …what began with aesthetic judgments of the digital renderings—the Los Angeles Times’ architecture critic called the Ring a “retrograde cocoon”—has lately turned to social and cultural critiques. Enduring Value Beyond Efficiency.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Interview questions were designed to test applicants for these traits. ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. .” ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. It’s important to understand unmet and latent needs.

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