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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

W HEN David Cote became CEO of Honeywell in February of 2002, the company was a train wreck. When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism. The problem was that he had to deliver something in the short-term to the investors for survival but had to set the company up for tomorrow too. He did both.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Winning Now, Winning Later : How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David Cote. The outcome was phenomenal.

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SERVANT Leaders are Thorough – Acronym Model

Modern Servant Leader

Servant leaders focus on the long-term. Unfortunately, these near-term wins are often achieved at the expense of people and long-term assets. Thorough leaders also plan for and invest in the long-term, first. Short-term wins come second in priority. What THOROUGH Looks Like for Leaders.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

In short, I would have to say that I agree and there is absolutely truth in the theory. I think we could agree though, when Strategic Planning (SP) is done right (development process, implementation, and execution) then there is great potential. SP is not easy and has challenges, but the hurdles are worth overcoming.

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Timing Leadership For Today’s Faster-Paced World

Tanveer Naseer

CEO tenure in the Fortune 500 has fallen from an average of 11 years in 2002 to six years today. The synchrony preference captures the degree to which a person tracks the pace of other people’s behavior and is willing to adapt his or her own behavior to match it, in terms of both speeding up and slowing down.

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Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance

The Empowered Buisness

Yet companies continue to invest in skills development only to be disappointed by little or no difference in performance. Since 2002, Carl Harshman — Founder, Institute for Work Attitude and Motivation – has studied hundreds of business leaders’ MAPs. They want to pay more attention to a long term, rather than short term, view.

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Are Strategic Plans Worth it? (the debate continues)

LDRLB

In short, I would have to say that I agree and there is absolutely truth in the theory. I think we could agree though, when Strategic Planning (SP) is done right (development process, implementation, and execution) then there is great potential. SP is not easy and has challenges, but the hurdles are worth overcoming.