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Organizational Structure

The flatter the org chart, the more agile the organization.

Goals

Hard goals drive performance more effectively than easy goals. Specific hard goals produce a higher level of output than vaguely worded ones.

Interviewing

Effective interviewing is about digging deeper and deeper into specific actions and decisions made during the candidates career with an emphasis on finding repeated patterns.

Decision-making

People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.  They can see much more objectively.

Perception

Many companies wrongly assume that commodity jobs are filled with commodity people.

Data

Data isn't simply about reporting what is happening in the business or answering a business question.  Data is the business.   #data   #corporateculture

Labor Costs

Controlling your labor costs in the name of profitability, can actually be undermining profitability.

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Executive Compensation

At present, the average CEO compensation in America's 350 largest companies is $17.2 million a year, or 278 times the pay of a typical frontline employee.  It's not clear those millions buy much in the way of vision.

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Focus (again)

Most organizations feel stretched thin, which is a side effect of insufficient focus.

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#Meetings

Never attend a meeting without an agenda.  Ever.  A meeting without an agenda is a meeting without a purpose.  Push back on any meeting without an agenda - your time is too valuable.  

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