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How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business

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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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business

Deere’s Enterprise Advanced Marketing Group – which is tasked with identifying unarticulated, unmet customer needs, representing opportunities for innovation and growth – has created a system for surveying the motivation of its employees every two weeks.

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Like It or Not, You Are Always Leading by Example

Harvard Business

How talent management is changing. They’re intended to define leadership behavior in the enterprise. Examples that stress talent development signal radically different priorities than disciplining malefactors or displaying kindness during family crises. Truly credible answers require both empathy and introspection.

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What a Minor League Moneyball Reveals About Predictive Analytics

Harvard Business

Lindbergh and I recently discussed lessons learned from their experience bringing analytics to an ambivalent and under-resourced enterprise. ” These Stompers were more open to data-driven suggestion not because they necessarily bought into Moneyball metrics , Lindbergh observes, but out of gratitude and loyalty.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business

In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). The business unit teams focused on talent, customer segmentation, and marketing. The right composition and metrics. That’s the equivalent of six and a half years!

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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. . Center-led global team provides integration mechanisms, including common processes and tools, and clear decision guardrails to be utilized across the enterprise. . METRICS/REWARDS . .

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business

How talent management is changing. We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). Leaders’ growth in these areas leads to enduring growth for the enterprise. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.