Recently, I caught up with Professor Don Sull, Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, to discuss strategy and execution best practices. This is the second and final post based on our Q&A. From our discussion, Professor Sull and I came...
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5 Ways Your 2017 Strategic Planning Process Could Fail
Temperatures are dropping, Christmas songs are hitting the radio and the office is buzzing over the upcoming holiday party, which means it’s almost the end of the year and executives are beginning to think about their strategic plans for 2017. As the Product Manager...
5 Strategies to Improve Conversations at Work
“When executed well by an organization, performance management is a clear and consistent signal to employees about what the organization values and rewards its people for. To add the most value, the process needs to focus not just on assessment but also on...
Google’s 5 Dynamics for Increasing Team Effectiveness
Just two months ago at Goal Summit, Prasad Setty, VP, People Analytics and Compensation at Google shared the results to a multi-year study looking to answer a well research question: What makes teams effective? Listen to his full presentation, or read on for his...
Dear Strategy, Meet Execution!
We know how critical a company's strategy is to it's success and have also seen how difficult it is for many organizations to execute that strategy. That’s why last month we launched our strategic planning module to help companies easily execute their long-term...
How to Use OKRs to Become a Great Manager
When Google launched Project Oxygen, a multiyear research initiative that measured key management behaviors, it uncovered incredible insights into what makes a manager great—empowering instead of micromanaging, communicating effectively and, at the top of the list,...