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Using the Right Performance Metrics: Watch out for P&Ls

Kates Kesler

We regularly work with CEO’s that are frustrated with leader behaviors that undermine enterprise strategy. Metrics serve as a powerful motivator and unfortunately, are often perfectly designed to drive sub-optimal results. In team sports, measuring vital, non-point metrics and de-emphasizing individual metrics is not a new concept.

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Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

Kates Kesler

We used the STAR model to help them take a holistic and practical approach to thinking through how to build an enterprise capability. . Where do we need leadership and management? . METRICS/REWARDS . . What metrics should we track? . Competency models are developed at the enterprise level for PMs and CMs.

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Performance Improvement and the Evolution of Consulting

Effective Managers

It can grow and mature together with other enterprises, many of which are driving the economic advances in those areas. the outcome measures, which are culture, performance metrics and ultimately profit, the people measures – how well we use our people to execute our strategy and achieve our outcomes. Managerial Leadership.

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The Challenge of Activation

Kates Kesler

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The challenge is ineffective and incomplete activation.

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Why the Entire C-Suite Needs to Use the Same Metrics for Cyber Risk

Harvard Business

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. Multiple conversations about cyber risks are happening across a multitude of divisions in isolation.

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. Paul Garbett for HBR. It’s not that development itself isn’t important.

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Organization Design Lessons from the Supply Chain

Kates Kesler

By the 1990s, emerging supply chain leaders were earnestly building the art and science of managing trade-offs and optimizing value for the enterprise. This ensures that the right decisions are made for the enterprise as a whole. In part, they may not have an accurate understanding of the problem to be solved. Karen Duvall.