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The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
"Embrace Them and Empower Your Team"
John C. Maxwell, author of 'The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership'
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How to Manage Your Time
If you want to learn better time management, you should look closely at "what you do" and "how you do it". In time, you should be able to tell the difference between efficiency and effectiveness, as well as important and urgency. Remember, time is not your enemy. It is just a question of learning how to manage time properly.
Equipped to Lead
Managing People, Process, Partners, and Performance
You'll master the 4Ps critical to long-term success: People, Process, Partners, and Performance. And you will create an organization that puts front-line people before bottom-line profits, allowing you and your organization to profit more than you ever thought possible.
Introduction
Simply put, order will emerge when leaders subscribe to good values.
First, leaders must never neglect their employees - the talented people who represent the lifeblood of productivity and innovation within every sustainable organization.
Second, leaders must devote adequate time to the processes by which work flows through the organization - the system of inputs and outputs that people use to drive productivity.
Third, leaders must acknowledge they cannot survive without partners - both the people who supply the organization and the people who purchase goods and services from the organization.
And, fourth, leaders must deliver superior performance - based on the realized potential of the organization, not the historical trend.
The 4Ps Management System begins and ends with human beings connected by processes.
People, Human Beings
People come first for good reason: they are the single greatest asset in any organization. Ask any CEO of any company; staffing is the single biggest challenge to long-term success.
The people issue is enormous for all industries. Understanding the well-being of employee - physically, mentally, and spiritually - is essential to realizing the full potential of an organization.
Try beginning conversations with employees with a question regarding their personal interests rather than to a question regarding business.
When people come first, the organization and its success follow naturally.
Process: Blocking and Tackling
Everything that happens inside an organization is tied to a process. If we closely examine the architecture of every discipline within an organization, we discover a series of complex systems, some formal and some ad hoc, that upon deconstruction reflect an orderly subsystem of processes - a subsystem comprising inputs and outputs. Comprehending this concept helps us understand the important fundamentals of leading an organization.
Efficient, streamlined processes bring order and balance to chaos. Properly equipped leaders know just how true this is.
Partners: Human Beings, Too
No one understands the importance of customer-partners more than Jack Mitchell, author of the book "Hug Your Customers".
Acknowledging your customers as partners casts an entirely different light on business conduct. The strength of the human spirit is what drives the relationship between organizations and their customer partners. This understanding resides in the heart and soul of every properly equipped leader. The leader must become a champion for customers as real people. Leaders must grant permission and empower employees to treat customers with the human spirit.
Performance (Yes, Profit)
People + Process + Partners + Performance = Sustainability
Failure to properly address any of these components ultimately results in performance failure. This system will allow an organization to replace its current profit-driven business model with a people-first business model leading to profitability.
Like coaches, business leaders constantly look for the little things that will move people one step closer to fulfilling their potential. The 4Ps promotes return on investment in humanity (ROIH). The business world promotes cash flow. Period.
For leaders who are intent on fostering a people-centered culture, the annual formal performance review ought to be used as an opportunity to develop talent. Unfortunately, performance reviews rarely provide insight leading to meaningful employee development.
Remember, it is an equation: Sustainability is a reflection of the investment we make in time and money directed toward people, processes, partners, and performance. Sustained performance can only be realized by investing in people, processes, and partners.
Answering The Ultimate Question
Answering the Ultimate Question builds on the link between Net Promoter Scores and business growth and profitability. Combined with an operational discipline to increase Promoters and reduce Detractors, Net Promoter represents a potential win-win for businesses and their customers. The Net Promoter Score offers a near-real-time metric closely coupled and correlated with precipitating actions. Instead of waiting months for long, drawn-out surveying, analysis, and interpretations, Net Promoter will affect real, positive change for those organizations that apply it correctly. Drawing on illustrative case-study findings from the more than eighty companies for which the authors have helped to put Customer Experience Management and Net Promoter disciplines in place, this book is designed to help apply Net Promoter correctly, and foster growth and profitability in any organization.
What Really Counts for CEOs
Regain Control of Your Company%u2019s ROI
The CEO cannot determine which part of the marketing budget has produced which result. Typically, when CEOs call on marketing management to account for their activities in the same way as every other department in the company, the result is a failure to produce a universally accepted measurement.
Instead of getting meaningful figures, the CEO finds himself playing corporate dodge ball, and not with much success, as he throws and the marketing department dodges. The result is not merely an elusive situation for the CEO, but an utter inability to genuinely measure marketing ROI.
This is a situation marketing seeks to avoid. The point is that every CEO must change how he or she thinks in terms of marketing.
The CEO as Quarterback
You, the CEO, must also understand that you did not create the culture or structure of your company.
Digital Marketing: The Promise of a New Casino
The Internet has changed not only how a company presents its message, but how many messages it presents. Companies traditionally had a single message that they presented through various media.
This points to another innovation: your company's website.
Your marketing resources are not unlimited, and no CEO should ever accept metrics that are selected by those who are selling the service.
Public Relations - The Rising Empire of Perception
With so many new portals available to the consumer, CEOs understand they must market in a different way. The result is that many smaller companies are likely to employ public relations as mainstream strategic endeavors for marketing their brands.
"The medium is the message" has never been truer.
Superior Marketing Strategies for CEOs
The Forrester Study determined that there are two major categories in judging marketing ROI:
Forrester concluded that the most effective marketing tactics (ranked by order of effectiveness) were:
%u2022 Public Relations
%u2022 Custom Publications
%u2022 Television
%u2022 Online Marketing
%u2022 Printed Newsletters
%u2022 General Business Magazines
%u2022 Newspapers
Key Mistakes in Selecting ROI Partners
1. Relying Exclusively on Your Advertising, Marketing, or PR Agency. Since sales and marketing don't talk much to each other (and since sales rarely shares information about product failures, bad customer service experiences, or operational debacles), your advertising and PR agencies have little to no control over your product or service management life cycle.
2. Relying Exclusively on Your Internal Marketing Department. It is incumbent upon you, the CEO, to encourage development of marketing metrics that your marketing management feels comfortable communicating.
Design Imperatives in Building Your CEO Marketing Dashboard
A properly designed Marketing Dashboard is an essential tool for every CEO when working with his or her marketing department. Only the CEO can objectively and honestly interpret the marketing data. The CEO's Marketing Dashboard is both an analytical tool and a communications tool for sharing success with your management team and employees.
Advertising Inventories. Open digital platforms are coming to dominate advertising space.
Consumer Choice. Marketing messages will be consumer approved and targeted, and designed primarily to draw attention. Here the consumer will primarily drive marketing, exercising increasing control and choice over exposure to advertising.
Consumer. Online communities will be adopted as part of the marketing approach. Marketing will become more interactive.
Business Model. How advertising is sold is changing and will continue to change. Partnerships are the future, and your revenue models and marketing formats should be directed towards that goal.
Business Design and Infrastructure. Marketing operations should be adopted to allow for greater consumer innovation, as well as to accept new technological developments.
Outliers
The Story of Success
Why do some people succeed far more than others?There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition. In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell claims that the true story of success is very different, and that if we want to understand how some people thrive, we should spend more time looking around them - at such things as their family, their birthplace, or even their birth date. The story of success is more complex and a lot more interesting than it initially appears.
Outliers explains what the Beatles and Bill Gates have in common, the extraordinary success of Asians at math, the hidden advantages of star athletes, why all top New York lawyers have the same resume, and the reason you've never heard of the world's smartest man - all in terms of generation, family, culture, and class. It matters what year you were born if you want to be a Silicon Valley billionaire, Gladwell argues, and it matters where you were born if you want to be a successful pilot.
In addition to all these, the lives of outliers or those people whose achievements fall outside normal experience follow a peculiar and unexpected logic, and in making that logic plain Gladwell presents a fascinating and provocative blueprint for making the most of human potential.
In the tipping point, Malcolm Gladwell aims to change the way we understand the world. In a blink he changed the way we think about thinking. Outliers will transform the way we understand success.
This book is an interesting and easy read with information applicable to numerous fields and disciplines. It provides new and interesting points on why others just plainly make it big.
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