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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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

It is tempting to regard artificial intelligence as a threat to human leadership. There is no reason to believe that leadership will be spared the impact of AI. A shift from the hard to soft elements of leadership is not exclusive to the AI age. Insight Center. Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls.

Leadership 73

Leadership Agile Emotional Intelligence Benchmarking 73

Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 17, 2020

Aligning your senior leadership team will help drive the results needed to move your organization forward through recovery. The alignment of the senior leadership team impacts growth, performance, profitability, and the ability of an organization to navigate change and disruption. Ownership ensures accountability and execution.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agile Metrics Operations 52

Chad Barr

APRIL 23, 2025

Whether for blog posts, podcast episodes, lead magnets, or thought leadership assets, this tool supercharged my IP creation in record time. What you see here is the result: a fully loaded idea matrix ready to power weeks—or even months—of meaningful content.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) Ignorance of the flow metrics. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost. Here are the four flow metrics: WIP: the current number of work items in progress.

Metrics 63

Metrics How To Efficiency Resources 63

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change. According to the report, power skills involve: communication, problem-solving, collaborative leadership, and strategic thinking.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth. The revenue must be reasonably invested to be doubled.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We have never yet come across a leadership team that said, “We don’t want good information. We don’t need to track metrics to succeed as a business.” But we have worked with many leadership teams that acknowledged, “We don’t know what metrics to track to get meaningful insights so that we can make strategic, timely business decisions.”

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The board, leadership team, employees, shareholders – they all are at once excited and anxious about the impact a new leader will have on the organization, the bottom line, and what the change in leadership means for them as individuals. The pressure on leaders to execute and deliver results has arguably never been greater.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. For the past 30 years, the literature on leadership and empowerment has advised leaders not to be too prescriptive about these questions, lest they undermine employee empowerment.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies? The global/local tension.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?” Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results?

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 136

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. .” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. And, a much more agile organization. What do agile managers do? That includes any interim measures, including cycle time metrics. People Solve Problems.

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

Mastering Change: 8 Steps for Aligning Top Leadership for Change Orchestrating successful organizational change requires more than just a compelling strategic plan or a shift in business practices. Top leadership must be unified in their understanding of why change is necessary and what the desired outcome looks like.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast. Discipline and Focus.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. A lot of good work is being done in companies around of metrics and rewards, but more can be done in this area. Capabilities.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. A lot of good work is being done in companies around of metrics and rewards, but more can be done in this area. Capabilities.

Talent 65

Talent Metrics Accenture Development 65

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 73

LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Are your leaders willing and able to support leadership succession planning? Why is that?

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. As senior leadership peeled back the organizational onion, a clear case for change emerged in 2013.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

We needed to determine what prevented senior leadership (and everyone else) from collaborating. How satisfied are we with our people, product, and cultural leadership? .” Tim was worried about the cultural changes we needed to discuss for the client's ability to be more effective. Then, as a team, we needed to fix those problems.

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LSA Global

MARCH 3, 2025

The Importance of Leaders Being One Team with One Plan High performing leadership teams act and speak as one team that is committed to one plan and one way of working. to-1 Leadership Effectiveness 8.71-to-1 The ability of leaders to function as “one team with one plan” is a hallmark of high-performing leadership teams.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

Choose a Role That Fits Your Situation You might have heard of situational leadership. And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. That's useful, but not enough for me. Instead, managers are supposed to coach people.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Impact of Clear Team Roles and Responsibilities We know from action learning leadership development programs that even the best teams can fall victim to role-related mistakes. What are the teams key objectives, desired outcomes, success metrics , and essential tasks required to deliver the necessary impact?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In the following months, the CMO began to look for opportunities where her team could proactively step “into the gap” — to take a leadership role on an opportunity that none of the other functions picked up. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As the half-life of specific skills diminishes , and machines become proficient at tasks including even decision-making, then fundamentally human capabilities become more important: empathy, curiosity, creativity, imagination, emotional and social intelligence, leadership, and the development of other people.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

By simulating real-world scenarios and using multiple assessors to evaluate participants across research-backed competencies , management assessment centers offer a relevant and targeted day-in-the-life approach to identifying leadership potential and readiness. businesses in the 1950s. Is your evaluation process objective and fair enough?

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

In fact, strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low levels of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness , and employee engagement. Strong Strategic Alignment The effective execution of a strategic direction requires a thoughtful alignment of resources and capabilities.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Despite large-scale, well-funded change initiatives, sophisticated communication programs, and countless worldwide leadership summits, the hard work of bringing these complex organization designs to life often lacks focus or is not sustained over the three or more years that it typically takes to fully embed new ways of working.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The importance of active and visible leadership cannot be overstated. Recognize that team leadership skills are at a premium, and assign the best leaders with sufficient capacity to tackle head-on the most challenging programs. Strategy delivery doesn’t just happen automatically once it is designed.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MAY 21, 2024

See the flow metrics newsletter.) This is one of the effects of multitasking: unexpected defects “appear” because we're distracted. Then, the aging increases, the WIP goes up, and the throughput goes down. Some teams think they can use the iteration content chart to see cycle time. I used to think so, too. But I was wrong.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Because of this, properly assessing executive capabilities of the CEO and the entire leadership team is an important, yet underutilized, leverage point to directly improve organizational performance. Combined, these leadership skills collectively define an executive’s capacity to lead effectively – especially when the stakes are high.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We know from our organizational alignment research that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. That is why strategies for executive teams to stay aligned are paramount.

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