Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2021

Where do we need leadership and management? . Local (business unit and operational function) teams have embedded practitioners that know the work of the unit and can build local relationships. . METRICS/REWARDS . . What metrics should we track? . What incentives will drive the right behaviors? .

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 12, 2022

There comes the time where you as the CEO need to step back from operative work and become more strategic. But without a doubt, having a COO in your startup will help to build a stable operational basis for future growth. Harvard Business Review) However, for many of our clients, the CEO and founder plans to get out of operations.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

The engagement of its drivers, who deliver milk and bread to millions of customers each day, was dipping while management was becoming increasingly metric-driven in an effort to reduce costs and improve delivery times. This type of top-down leadership is outdated, and, more importantly, counterproductive. Adapted from. Alive at Work.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Culp has also shifted focus away from earnings per share, which was once the most important metric at GE. Under Culp’s leadership, EPS is viewed not as the end goal of the business, but rather the result of well-managed operations. What executive would advocate for ignorant, uninformed and disengaged workers?

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. Kouzes and Posner, authors of The Leadership Challenge, found that over 80% of managers value honesty as a key characteristic in their leaders. Too many do not dance because they have lost touch with reality.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers.

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LSA Global

JUNE 19, 2019

Do You Know How to Conduct Effective Leadership Team Meetings? While most work meetings are considered a waste of valuable time and energy, your ability to conduct effective leadership team meetings is essential to moving a team forward and carving out time for strategic, complex, systemic, and cross-team issues. Identify Clear Roles.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What does digital leadership look like in this sense? Leadership is changing — fast. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. What’s unique about this company’s leadership? We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

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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LSA Global

JUNE 5, 2022

Execution Excellence Designing and evaluating the operating processes, procedures, and agreements that drive accountability , collaboration , and commitment across the team. Player-Coach Effectiveness Balancing being a player (doing their work) and a coach (leading their team) at the same time.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle. While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. Creating a leadership circle is a step toward addressing these shortfalls.

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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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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

Decision-making is a significant part of leadership; many depend on the decisions. A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

And sales leadership simulation assessment data tells us that too many sales leaders struggle with the ability to select strategic sales priorities that add significant value and create a competitive advantage. Developing an effective sales strategy requires a deep understanding of market dynamics and the ability to adapt to evolving trends.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

And a huge knowledge and skill shift that is looming will serve as a leadership validation test. Here are three future smart leadership qualities, two steps for rethinking the future of leadership, and one good leadership habit for keeping you moving in the best direction. Effective leaders are good learners.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

Done right, mapping the current customer experience assesses your current organizational culture and allows for a comparison between the experiences people have and the underlying operational processes and systems that substantiate those experiences. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Success metrics are confusing, conflicting, unfair or unbalanced. Trust in leadership or the company is weak. This will let you know where you stand in terms of leadership and organizational trust, individual and team capabilities, organizational climate and how work gets done vis-à-vis your strategic priorities.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

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 metrics and reward systems in the company make it clear that this kind of collaboration is expected. Amy Kates & Greg Kesler.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? Leadership teams never communicate enough. Metrics are vital for effective execution. Your Core Values define the culture you live every day.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? Leadership teams never communicate enough. Metrics are vital for effective execution. Your Core Values define the culture you live every day.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

When roles and success metrics are unclear, it is difficult for teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts. It is also critical when internal operations must change to become more efficient or more satisfactory to external or internal customers.

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LSA Global

APRIL 19, 2018

Prioritize and Reward Leadership Modeling. At most companies, the CEO and senior leadership sets the tone. Monitor Culture Metrics. If you are undergoing culture change, establish tracking metrics in areas such as: Key financial metrics: revenue, profit, expense, etc.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

You’ll need a sexy minor, some unique leadership experience or a great summer internship to stand out. Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused, in contrast to say Civil Engineering, where you are more focused on ideas such as land use instead of metrics and modeling. The knock on engineering?

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1 to 1

JUNE 29, 2022

She explained that every large company was already operating with a “virtual” culture before the pandemic, even if all employees were physically in the office. Operational distance – How hard is it to get decisions made, get access to resources, get to people who have knowledge, etc. Send-off in style.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. It is the artful combination of organizational structure, process, governance forums, metrics and reward systems that tie together global business units and functions with far-flung geographic market units.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

When I conduct workshops with marketing and leadership teams on the design of strategic narratives , I’m often asked, “Should we include the sales teams?” The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics. Focus your metrics instead on learning and the creation of network effects.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Metrics Are Not Your Friends. A growing body of evidence shows that ethical companies outperform financially over time , but trying to translate such a broad finding into the short-term planning metrics used by most businesses is perilous. They are less subject to short-term operational pressures, and accordingly less risk-averse.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Co-produced by our three organizations, the survey gauged nearly 28,000 business leaders across industries about the state and trajectory of leadership. Implement leadership planning models.

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LSA Global

JULY 9, 2021

Not only was much of the work force suddenly operating remotely and anxious about their health and the future of their employment; but also, their managers were challenged to keep employees on task, engaged, and connected without face-to-face interactions. First, make sure that success metrics are agreed upon and make sense.

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LSA Global

MAY 26, 2017

They teach all kinds of leadership skills necessary for new managers (or experienced managers for that matter) to succeed. They operate not by gut-feel but by facts, and are able to analyze the pros and cons objectively with the desired outcomes and relationships in mind. New manager training programs exist by the hundreds.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

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. As a result, managers do not focus on their managerial leadership work. Hence the term – managerial leadership.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Metrics emphasized speed. Every spot on every line was visible to managers.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 11, 2014

Beyond the operational and financial exercises, supply chain design is a sophisticated organization design task. So why is it that many organizations still struggle to build robust supply chains capable of delivering their strategies? In part, they may not have an accurate understanding of the problem to be solved. Karen Duvall.

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