Weekly Hotlist: Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics

Are you having trouble viewing this email? If so, click here to see it in a web browser. HOME   |   BLOGS   |   THE MAGAZINE   |   BOOKS   |   AUTHORS   |   STORE RSS   |   Mobile Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics by Jeff Bladt and Bob Filbin To understand your social impact, measure the right things. Visit the Scaling Social Impact Insight Center, where this month we tackle the role of technology and data. PROBLEM SOLVING Saving Great Ideas from the Ideas Industry Umair Haque Thought leadership has led to a decline in actual thinking. Read more. MOTIVATION Forget About That Cash Bonus Ray Fisman Thoughtful gifts are better motivators. Read more. MARKETING When Ads Get (Too) Personal Rebecca Waber Microtargeting isn't an advertising cure-all. Read more. Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean Ebook Now Available Since its release in 2006, Financial Intelligence has become a favorite among managers who need a guided tour through the numbers — helping them to understand not only what the numbers really mean, but also why they matter. This new, completely updated edition brings the numbers up to date and continues to teach the basics of finance to managers who need to use financial data to drive their business. It also addresses issues that have become even more important in recent years — including questions around the financial crisis and those around broader financial and accounting literacy. STRATEGY To Become More Adaptable, Take a Lesson from Biology Rafe Sagarin Stop giving orders and start issuing challenges. Read more. ECONOMY Why Employers Aren't Filling Their Open Jobs Peter Cappelli With far less to spend on recruiting and training, vacancies are staying vacant for a very long time. Read more. PRODUCTIVITY Measure Employee Productivity Accurately Video Don't assume the employee in the office the longest is the one working hardest. Read more. INNOVATION Stop Reinventing Disruption Maxwell Wessel Not every awesome innovation is "disruptive." Read more. FINANCE Accountants Will Save the World Peter Bakker By factoring social benefits and the use of resources into a company's value. Read more. ADVERTISEMENT MOST POPULAR Good Grammar Should Be Everyone's Business Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics Let's Save Great Ideas from the Ideas Industry Confronting Just-Back-From-Vacation Dread Accountants Will Save the World COMMENT OF THE WEEK "At TED, we see a world in which too many brilliant ideas are stuck in silos, not connecting with each other. Our platform is allowing some of them to enter mainstream discussion, opening up multi-disciplinary thinking in areas crying out for it. " posted by CHRIS ANDERSON ON "LET'S SAVE GREAT IDEAS FROM THE IDEAS INDUSTRY" JOIN THE DISCUSSION ADVERTISEMENT Introducing Mobile ManageMentor Powered by the proven content of Harvard ManageMentor™ iTunes >> Android >> UNSUBSCRIBE   |   UPDATE YOUR PROFILE   |   MORE EMAIL NEWSLETTERS   |   PRIVACY POLICY Was this email forwarded to you? If so, sign up to start receiving your own copy. ABOUT THIS MAILING LIST You have received this message because you subscribed to the "Weekly Hotlist" email newsletter from Harvard Business Review. If at any point you wish to remove yourself from this list, change your email address, or sign up for other email newsletters and alerts, please visit the Harvard Business Review Email Newsletter Preference Center. OPT OUT If you do not wish to receive any email messages from Harvard Business Review, click here. ADVERTISE WITH HBR This enewsletter is read by thousands of decision makers every week. Learn more about connecting your brand with this audience. Copyright © 2013 Harvard Business School Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing | 60 Harvard Way | Boston, MA 02163 Customer Service: 800-545-7685 (+1-617-783-7600 outside the U.S. and Canada)