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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

Metrics 70
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Mastering AI: A Strategic Guide for Business Leaders in the Digital Age

Chad Barr

Innovation Acceleration AI can act as a catalyst for product and service development by identifying market trends and predicting future demands. By applying AI to these touch points, you can free up valuable time to focus on high-impact client relationships and strategy development.

Tools 52
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Is Execution Where Good Strategies Go to Die?

Harvard Business

Salespeople see the world as prospects and products, offers and opportunities. The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics. I consistently see measurement as an afterthought in strategy development. Focus your metrics instead on learning and the creation of network effects.

Strategy 133