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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

However, every manager's micromanagement pervades all levels. Management—not the teams—often chose a Scrum board with three columns. Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity? Because the teams are not empowered.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g.

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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

CaseInterview.com

Fatality Rate % x # of Patients = Total # of Deaths Example 1: If 10% of people die x 100 patients = 10 deaths Example 2: If 1% of people die x 1 billion patients = 10 million deaths The key metric that is overlooked by a lot of people is how many patients there will be as the virus progresses. It’s known as R0 (pronounced R-nought).

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Is More Effective Training the Answer?

LSA Global

Some blame low morale (TSA ranked 303 rd out of 305 government agencies in 2016). Managers are held accountable for performance coaching. Corrective actions are taken for employees or managers not doing their part. So far, no one really knows the exact reason for the high failure rates.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? No, KPMG targets large corporates and big government. For some managers, this seems initially like putting the cart before the horse.

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Money as Communication: A Purposely "Non-Educational" Fallacious Video by the Atlanta Fed

MishTalk

But if people are going to communicate with one another about value, those communications are going to be most effective if done using some standardized metric—and that''s where money comes in. Please consider a few re-ordered sentences starting at the bottom of page 15 of Murray Rothbard''s classic text What Has Government Done to Our Money?

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business

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. And the beauty was that it became a self-governing system. Essential to the story is the company’s purpose.

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