The Tango of Speed and Quality – The Key to Achieving Both!

The Tango of Speed and Quality - The Key to Achieving Both!

Over the past few decades there has been a dramatic increase in the pace of daily activities. In order to stay competitive and profitable, companies and their leaders have looked for ways to get products to market faster, make changes quicker, and be on top of the latest information.

But will working faster cause errors and poor quality?

To research this, we wanted to study people who preferred a faster pace but also had a quality focus. We looked at 360-degree assessments on 75,000 leaders. We identified a group of leaders who scored in the top quartile on both speed and quality and compared this group to all other leaders in the database to discover:

What were the highly differentiating behaviors of leaders who were rated as having high levels of both speed and quality? What did they do that other leaders did not? The results of our analysis isolated seven unique factors that identify what it takes to combine these two seemingly contradictory yet critical leadership goals.

Join Jack and Joe as they reveal the key behaviors that leaders who are the best at both speed and quality possess.

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