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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

Winning Now, Winning Later : How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David Cote. Short-termism is rampant among executives and managers today, causing many companies to underperform and even go out of business. Dave Cote is intimately familiar with this problem.

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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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The Evolution of the Executive, C-Suite, and Boardroom

N2Growth Blog

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This was still, however, a largely ‘hush hush’ environment until 2002 when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act came into play, an act passed by U.S. Congress in 2002 to protect investors from the possibility of fraudulent accounting activities by corporations. Companies focused on diversity across many forms.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Coaching Tip

If you try to create profit in any other way, you may succeed in the short term, but in the end the natural movement of society will crush you and you are bound to lose. CSR is not charity; it is an investment made in order to create value and does not differentiate between commercial and CSR activities.

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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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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. SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions. That’s wrong…it’s a leader’s most important job” (from Larry Bossidy, former CEO, Honeywell, Inc.).