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How good a leader are you?

Berkonomics

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…] More importantly, what if you as a leader haven’t a stated goal for your enterprise?

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10 Strategies For Boosting Your Productivity At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Among other things, she identified ten general productivity principles to give you a competitive edge, which I have adapted here for entrepreneurs: Control yourself well, but don’t try to control others. Success in execution is all about productivity – more time, more money, more customers, and more satisfaction. Marty Zwilling.

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10 Ways To Prepare Your Team For Business Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

With the multiple technologies of team videos, smartphones, email, and the pervasive Internet facilitating total communication, there is no need for the delay and information loss of multiple hierarchy levels in business. Discourage internal team competition and silos. You will find improved morale and satisfaction all around as well.

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8 Ways To Ensure Customer Interactions Are Memorable

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. Pleasant surprises don’t have to be big – like how fast you return a phone call or email. Sponsor experiments to create memorable elements.

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How do you measure your effectiveness as a leader?

Berkonomics

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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7 Ways To Manage Healthy Internal Business Conflicts

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, in a conflict over the right branding logo , it may help to understand who and how the ultimate decision will be made, including key elements driving the decision, such as targeted customers and competition. Discussing tough issues in person is always better than sending text messages or emails.

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CapLinked Goes Mobile | Announces New Features For iPad To Put Virtual Data Rooms on Notice

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But a lack of competition has also lead to a lack of innovation, resulting in low customer satisfaction and frequent complaints of difficult-to-use products. Jackson added, “Their pricing and technology are hold-overs from the 1990s—it goes to show how they have been shielded from competition for too long.

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