Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] You are not alone. Elon Musk, who obsesses with metrics and constantly asks for employees to feed him their concerns but makes bold moves on his own. Doesn’t sound tough or forceful enough for you? . It is a very thin line between abdication of responsibility and participative leadership.

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Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2020

Earliest warning metrics: [Email readers, continue here…] What good is information if you can’t act upon it in a timely manner? Find metrics that will be “leading indicators” of trouble to come.

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Berkonomics

MAY 20, 2021

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. But first, identify what those critical resources are in your company.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

The technique, “OST” (objective, strategies and tactics), is a very good way to organize your effort to find guideposts and then develop metrics to measure progress. Email readers, continue here…] Note that these are expansive “junior” goals that, if achieved, would certainly move the company forward toward a larger financial goal.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Please fill in your email. Recently, several retailers that have used TikTok to sell items have informed the Financial Times that “the level of resources needed to sell on the app was not worth the returns”. By some metrics, certainly not. Get the latest tech news, straight to your inbox. Please fill in your name.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. Email readers, continue here…] I prefer a financial goal, such as “achieve $20 million in revenue within five years.”

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. No-one challenged this number, and it became an unattributed source of the metric for market size for years. Email readers, continue here.]

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2016

push for achievement – hopefully establishing a realistic set of strategies and accurate metrics to measure progress along a timeline. But when he did state a monetary goal, he started a real conversation about how he will achieve it and with what resources, and which of several focused revenue models. But not often.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 15, 2013

Earliest warning metrics: What good is information if you can’t act upon it in a timely manner? Find metrics that will be “leading indicators” of trouble to come. Think of labor efficiency (future product or service delivery impairment) or warehouse inventory (sales slowdown, supply chain management problems) as examples.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is defined as the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. Email readers, continue here.]

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In fact, let me provide an important warning: If you create these documents, don't have input from a technical resource, take it to a development shop and they provide you a price. Go find a new technical resource. Just make note of it in the document and/or in an email when you send it. Quite often these things get old quickly.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 4, 2016

Elon Musk, who obsesses with metrics and constantly asks for employees to feed him their concerns but makes bold moves on his own. Email readers, continue here…] In technology–based enterprises, the question of leadership vision becomes mixed with leadership style. The world loves bold leadership.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

We have them add their name, email address, and input the percent amount. We then subsequently email each individual, if they don't already have Stem, for them to accept their position and confirm their share. I come from the agency business, where we're all about making deals, and the metrics that matter are revenue.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In today’s world of social marketing, it takes someone knowledgeable if not expert in understanding how to use available resources in promotion and marketing. Email readers, continue here.] Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. Dave’s syndicated cable show: The Berkus Report. Second: channels. Fourth: measurement.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2016

It takes trusting management, good metrics, and entrepreneurial employees. My employees will lose control of their time and resources. Let your employees manage their own time –– but provide tools and resources. Email readers, continue here…] On the contrary, we monitor performance better now that we’re virtual.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

In today’s world of social marketing, it takes someone knowledgeable if not expert in understanding how to use available resources in promotion and marketing. Email readers, continue here…] Second: channels. Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. Fourth: measurement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2020

I have to explain that if you really want to exercise total control of a new venture, they you need to do it without external investors, bootstrapping your way with your own resources. Email status reports to board members and key employees should be delivered more frequently, as key events unfold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Examples abound of startups who had to pivot for success, including Twitter moving from podcasts to social commentating, and Yelp moving from email to online. Smarter entrepreneurs don’t wait for a crisis to drive change, by defining key milestones and metrics for tracking progress.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The technique, “OST” (objective, strategies and tactics), is a very good way to organize your effort to find guideposts and then develop metrics to measure progress. Email readers continue here.] What is a strategy?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Instead of having to integrate with a system that doesn't exist, they get a text or email, or a phone call, to ask if they have equipment around and if they'd like to accept or not accept, and let us negotiate it, which makes it simpler for them. How we made it easy, is a system we call Quickrentz. How did you get involved in the business?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The day after we shut down the site, we got an email from this company, saying they had a big opportunity they'd like to talk to us about. We had some investors very interested but wanted us to validate some metrics, so we spent time building things to prove those metrics. We had a lot of reasons we had to do a lot of things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

What you Before Sets the Course for How Well the Day Goes Make sure you send your financial and operating metrics no less than 72 hours before the board meeting — even better if it can be a week in advance. Literally stop the meeting, let everybody do their quick emails and then restart with no devices. Fix an agenda for the meeting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource. Define relevant metrics and measure. If you are in consulting, you are the business, so use a professional headshot.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Despite these abundant resources, the team's ineffectiveness was reflected by the company's dismal 11% market share. He met with the editors of the three Mac magazines that his customers read and showed them metrics that confirmed that SuperMac's boards were the fastest on the market. "I Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource. Define relevant metrics and measure. If you are in consulting, you are the business, so use a professional headshot.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

We've created a compelling way to communicate that data to the manager at 7-11, wh ois not a data analyst--but is powerful enough to use all the way up to the CEO, to track the metrics of the business. The use cases range from sales enablement to human resources, to executive reporting. Or, it can come directly out of a database.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource. Define relevant metrics and measure. If you are in consulting, you are the business, so use a professional headshot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email. Assess and commit the resources required. Implement metrics and analytics. At this point you need executive buy-in, decide what you do personally, assess your staffing and out-sourcing requirements, and commit the budget.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource. Define relevant metrics and measure. If you are in consulting, you are the business, so use a professional headshot.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 25, 2022

He tried to feel the pulse of the company by the intensity of motion, the metrics of backlog, and the stated problems brought to him as he asked. One of the CEOs I used to coach started his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2010

Where they go wrong is focusing on the goal behaviors such as “collect an email” or “add an item to the shopping cart” all the way to “spend $10.00 With goals in place, your metrics have so much more meaning and the time you spend analyzing data will drive more informed decisions geared at improving your conversion rates.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Startups have always pushed the edge by emailing investors they didn’t know, so overall, there’s been no transformation of the process, except now, with sites like ours, there is now a more streamlined way to do it.” But now with resources like ours you can put up a public pitch/presentation and investors can find you.

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Berkonomics

JULY 28, 2016

He tries to feel the pulse of the company by the intensity of motion, the metrics of backlog, and the stated problems brought to him as he asks. It is more than showing the flag when a manager or CEO spends time focusing upon the immediate issues of subordinates and offers resources to solve problems without the need for formal meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. And when you have a market where the competitor response can be that they throw money and resources at a problem but truly competing would be undermining their core business model and assets … BOOOOOM. Choose that market.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2011

Start by carefully restating the goal for the process, such as “produce 500 quality units per day” and create metrics to measure the present output and quality (rejects or time lost) with this goal. Email readers continue here.] If internal resources cannot handle the solution, it is time to find an outside resource that can.

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