A Leadership Tool for Smart Thinking

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Pierre Dube

Paula is a shift supervisor for a high-tech industry. Prior to her daily brief with her crew, she must sift through data on industry updates, changes in the work schedule, current plant performance, and a host of other documents to determine what to provide her crew so ... More »

Branded for Success

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Terri Horton

The concept of building a personal brand and executing a marketing strategy to promote it to a specific audience is a foreign concept for many outside of the world of marketing. Branding and marketing oneself in the same way as global brands like Nike, IKEA, Apple, or G... More »

The Case for Measuring Intangibles

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Susan Lesser

We tend to measure that which is of value to our business or organization because we inherently know that we can't manage what we can't measure. So what does this say about organizational intangibles, such as leadership, communication, and teamwork? While the majority o... More »

The Best of Best Practices: Critical Success Factors for Identifying and Measuring Industry-Leading Management Solutions

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Louis Carter

In today's uncertain economic climate, the ability to identify effective and actionable solutions to business challenges is more crucial than ever to the strategic management process. When there are substantial problems to be solved, best practice benchmarking providers... More »

Moving From Evidence to Proof: New Directions for the Way We Think About Metrics

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Jack J. Phillips

A group of client relationship managers participate in a formal learning program to implement new selling skills. Six months after the program, sales improve, and the learning team presents the results to the vice president of sales. The senior executive responds, "An i... More »