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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

According to its annual report, those include financial metrics such as “attributable profit; underlying EBIT (earnings before interest and taxation); and total shareholder return (share price and dividends which are assumed to be reinvested).” ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective.

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Strategic Believability: A Research-Backed Guide

LSA Global

Alignment with Ways of Working, Resources, and Capabilities We know from leadership simulation assessment data that too many leaders ignore cultural and operational realities. Strategies that clash with organizational culture or overlook operational constraints are unlikely to gain traction.

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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business

After experimenting with a number of potential behavioral metrics, we settled on using one that approximates average weekly working hours as our primary measure. Both of these data points served as calls to action to senior leadership to invest more into creating a culture of both engagement and productivity.

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How One Company Got Employees to Speak Up and Ask for Help

Harvard Business

They would continue tracking their normal metrics but, for the next few weeks, these metrics wouldn’t impact teams’ compensation. No market research or benchmarking data would have suggested it. To start, the call center leaders told their teams that they were taking a four-week Experimentation Vacation.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Yet, their work cultures produce 85% disengaged employees. These means they are not good at one-on-one conversations, cultural sensitivity, listening, team building, managing their emotions, managing conflict, or communicating vision and strategy clearly. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.

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