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Building the Fit Organization: Six Core Principles for Making Your Company Stronger, Faster, and More Competitive
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Building the Fit Organization: Six Core Principles for Making Your Company Stronger, Faster, and More Competitive

by Daniel Markovitz
October 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
4h 19m
English
McGraw-Hill
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2Increase Value, Don’t Cut Costs

Leaders err when they use cost cutting to reach financial targets. Long-term success requires that leaders focus on increasing the value that their organizations deliver to customers. Managing exclusively by financial results is ineffective in creating real value, since it leads only to transient benefits. Financial numbers are by definition lagging indicators, so by the time leadership takes action, it’s already too late. The damage to the organization’s reputation and customer satisfaction has already been done. By contrast, fit companies manage by means. They monitor, fix, and improve their operational processes in real time. Figuring out how to increase the value created by any process yields both happier ...

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ISBN: 9781259587184