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Jahn Ballard, founding director of Performance Management Institute discusses methods that integrate financial and operational data to align operating leaders and teams around the actions that drive business results. Jahn approaches business execution from the background of a person rooted in accounting and finance, emphasizing ways to make accounting data more meaningful and impactful for operations managers and employees.

Learn data driven techniques that link front line actions to bottom line results – this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Dean Spitzer, author of “Transforming Performance Measurement” explains how to move performance measurement from a disjointed, backward looking exercise in data collection to a process that gives a company meaningful competitive advantage. He describes what a “transformative measure” is and how it can be used to re-orient an entire company around the things that matter for business execution.

It is well known that what gets measured is what gets managed. So what could be more important to measure than performance? Find out how to apply the concepts of focus, integration, interactivity, and context to improve your company’s performance management methods – this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Suzy Tonini, Manager of Global Online Communication for Deloitte-Touche-Tomatsu discusses how companies are starting to leverage social networking technology to drive business results. Suzy discusses benefits that can be gained by proactively embracing social media as a tool to drive business execution. She also shares some problems that can occur if companies fail to recognize the growing role social media plays in shaping a company internal and external brand image.

Whether you twitter, yammer, link-in, facebook, or e-mail, you will find something new to share with your social network by listening to this week’s episode of Business Execution Radio.

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Jac Fitz-Enz, founder and CEO of Human Capital Source discusses the next evolution in the use of metrics to manage business execution. Jac discusses how companies are moving to integrative metrics strategies that combine data across different areas of the organization to develop more comprehensive and insightful business strategies. The answers to the really big questions do not come from looking at financial data, marketing data, operations data, or human resources data by themselves – they result from looking at how these different types of data influence one another.

If you collect business data but are not always sure how to interpret it, then listen to this week’s episode of Business Execution Radio for some tips on how to think about data in a more integrative fashion.

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Mark Murphy is CEO of Leadership IQ, a company focused on researching, understanding, and communicating what makes leaders successful. Mark discusses what differentiates the top 10% of successful leaders. He explains the importance of setting goals that are not only well-defined, but that also challenge employees to learn new skills and capabilities. He also talks about what great leaders do differently from average managers when their employees fail to meet their goals.

This interview contains a wealth of insights about how to maximize the productivity of your employees. Are you doing all you can to get the most from your workforce? Find out by listening to Mark Murphy, this week on Business Execution Radio.

Listen to Business Execution Radio Episode 73:

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Pravir Malik, is President of Aurosoorya, a company that specializes in helping organizations minimize the negative impact that stress has on productivity and performance. If untreated, stress can wreak havoc on an organization’s ability to focus energy on the things that matter. Pravir discusses web based tools that help employees to self-diagnose and effectively deal with sources of stress, anxiety and tension.

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• Aurosoorya’s Stress Management Overview

As business conditions increasingly demand that employees do more with less, stress levels will only go up. Learn how to effectively deal with the realities of living in a high stress world - this week on Business Execution Radio.

Listen to Business Execution Radio Episode 72:

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J.C. Herrera, VP of Compensation, Benefits and HRIS at McAfee describes how his organization uses quarterly goal reviews to drive a highly focused, pay for performance drive culture. J.C. emphasizes that there should not be any “surprises” during an employee’s performance review, and discusses what McAfee does to ensure employees always know where they stand when it comes to business execution.

Ever wonder what it takes to be a true pay for performance organization? Listen to stories from a company that lives it every quarter – this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Robert Craven is former CEO of two high-growth, entrepreneurial companies. After taking these organizations from concept to reality, Robert was inspired to create Scale Passion, a company focused on helping entrepreneurs build companies. Robert shares challenges entrepreneurs must overcome to grow businesses beyond a certain size. Some of the biggest challenges are not a function of the business, but are based on an entrepreneur’s ability to understand and manage his/her own goals and beliefs.

Think you have what it takes to be a highly successful entrepreneur? Test your assumptions by listening to Robert Craven – this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Jim Ware, Executive Producer for the Work Design Collaborative shares insights gained from helping organizations leverage the use of distributed offices and telecommuting. He explains that productivity should be based on what people do, not where they do it. Yet many organizations waste money and time by forcing employees to commute to expensive central office locations.

Learn how to increase the productivity of your employees by changing where they work – this week on Business Execution Radio.

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Tom Zigray, Labor Relationship Strategist for The Alignment Group discusses legislation that will significantly increase the speed of unionization in the United States and the impact it will have on companies’ ability to swiftly execute business decisions. Companies that take proactive steps now to ensure managers communicate decisions in a manner that emphasizes respect, fairness, and honesty will be in a much stronger position to manage the growing risk of union drives over the coming years.

If the National Labor Relations Board does what it is expected to do, unions will soon be able to execute their organizing strategies much faster than they could in the past. Find out what your company can do now to prepare for these changes – this week on Business Execution Radio.