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When Leaders Torture Their Employees

Markovitz Consulting

In a misguided attempt to improve quality, the management posts monthly scores on a variety of metrics. without understanding anything about effective use of metrics. Pity the employees at a Starbucks in midtown NYC. And why are they looking at the scores monthly?

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An Insider’s Look at The Case Interview Scoring System

Management Consulted

Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems, once summed up consulting interviews perfectly when she said, “The first rule of any game is to know you’re in one.”. Our scoring system is on a 5-point scale – 1 is painful and 5 is perfect. If you’re anything like us, when you play, you play to win.

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Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics

LSA Global

Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics Workplace metrics impact workplace behaviors and performance. Designing the right strategy success metrics can mean the difference between a leadership team collectively steering toward its strategic targets and veering off course. Makes sense right? Wells Fargo opened 3.5

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 5)

Markovitz Consulting

Managers capture all kinds of metrics, from the number of patient falls in a hospital ward, to the first pass yield in a production line, to the number of hits on a website, to the time it takes to repair a bicycle. Too often, leaders react to every up and down in the metrics, asking for explanations and root causes that don’t actually exist.

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A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics

Epicflow

This is where project management metrics come into play – they provide project managers with useful insights as to a project’s “health”. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them? What are project management metrics and why do you need them? What are the most common project management metrics?

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How to Design the Ideal (and Most Profitable) Consulting Business

Consulting Matters

You needs to implement a system that will can empower you to predictably and consistently: Attract and connect with your exact perfect client who has needs and challenges you are passionate about solving. It's having a system that you can rely on that will give you the confidence to pursue big dreams and goals for your consulting success.

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Important change is systems change

Seth Godin Blog

Systems are long-lasting, widespread and resilient. We can push back on them with effort, but over time, the system usually comes out ahead. Once we see a system, we can change it. If you want to eat healthier, don’t work hard to avoid stopping at the cookie jar when you walk into the kitchen. Get rid of the cookie jar.

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