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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline I.

System 98
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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Norton (creators of the Balanced Scorecard) offer their insights concerning the "rules" of successful strategy execution: The failure to balance the tensions between strategy and operations (execution) is pervasive. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline I.

System 85
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The Best Leadership Books of 2023

Leading Blog

In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. Drawing on modern science, ancient wisdom, and daily practice, Stulberg offers concrete principles for developing a mindset called rugged flexibility, along with habits and practices to implement it. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”?

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees

Harvard Business Review

Getting them to market demands more than corporate systems can handle, so they must beg for IT upgrades, recruit and budget themselves, and even take on sales responsibilities to explain innovations to customers — which adds to the workload. As my HBS colleague Michael Norton shows in his book Happy Money , giving to others boosts happiness.