Do you know your organization’s “Execution Quotient”?

“Execution Quotient” or “xQ” for short – measures the gap between an organization’s goals and how well it achieves them. It’s like measuring the organization’s IQ for achieving results. Why do so many organizations find it difficult to execute their strategies and achieve results? Harris Polling surveyed 2.5 million workers to ask about this and [...]

More Managers Are Saying: “Show Me The Evidence”

Many managers will tell you that their decisions are based on incomplete or erroneous data. This usually leads to suboptimal results. Poor management decisions are often linked to the following six issues:

Using obsolete knowledge (relying on previous experience)
Decisions based on own strengths rather than accurate analysis
Hype and marketing
Dogma and belief
Blind Ideology
Uncritical emulation and casual benchmarking

A [...]

Time to Retire Retirement?

Ten-years from now 80% of the native born American workforce will be over 50! When these workers start to retire there will not be nearly enough young people in the workforce to take their place. This does not seem to be a problem right now as we are experiencing near historic levels of unemployment; however, [...]

Guess What? Succession Planning is not Rocket Science

Managing your workforce more effectively than your competitors can give your organization a competitive edge. Putting the best people in the most critical positions means that better decisions are made more quickly, and this leads to better bottom line results.
Effective succession planning means that critical positions are not left vacant for extended periods and [...]

Hire People with Organizational Grit!

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people” — so said the famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
For organizations seeking progress and change there seem to be too many reasonable people about! Where are the people who will take the [...]

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