N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. We chase short-term wins. They go after short-term wins and cannot lift their heads high enough to glimpse the future. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 322

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

As financing dries up, entrepreneurs would do well to remember the benefits of bootstrapping. In 2004, I attended my first trade show. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. But building a profitable, sustainable business is still really hard. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success.

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Entrepreneur Long-term Short-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

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Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. In short, tax rates are lower for companies in practice than in theory, and the distinction between the U.S. In short, while it is hard to identify a competitiveness problem, the U.S. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S.

Finance 8

Finance GDP System Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

When Google introduced a controversial dual-class share structure at the time of its IPO in 2004, I had reservations (as you would expect of someone whose specialty is corporate governance). But the founders' passionate advocacy of the need to follow a "long-term, innovative approach" resonated with me.

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Planning IPO Proposal Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Rising short-termism among investors — which threatens to destabilize both companies and the wider economy — is prompting a reconsideration of the principle that all shareholders should have equal say. "One-share, one-vote," a bedrock principle of Anglo-Saxon corporate governance, is back in the spotlight.

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