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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress.

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Marketing Mix Modeling MMM (Part 1 of 3)

Tom Spencer

new ways to spend the marketing budget), including the Internet, online communities, search engines, event marketing, sports marketing, viral marketing, cell phones, and text messaging. Often, some combination of the two methods is the most efficient. Both methods are sound, and both have their place.

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How to Be an Effective Player-Coach at Work

LSA Global

The origin of the term player-coach refers to a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Although the practice is mostly extinct in sports, many companies today expect their managers – especially their first-level managers – to be an effective player-coach at work.

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! It’s very much like sports, the more the team wins, the greater the number of fans it has. A management team that can successfully integrate other firms without major disruption and with immediate efficiencies is a valued team. The icing – the top three.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. And since people ultimately make all the difference, your operating model should define how you manage the assignments and career paths for your difference-making talent. .