Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Management has no choice but to anticipate the future, to attempt to mold it, and to balance short-term and long-range goals. In short, it must be organized for constant change. It is not given to mortals to do well any of these things. And that’s the great frontier of the next … fifty years.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2013

When the recession hit in 2008, Abercrombie & Fitch (one of their exceptional companies) was criticized for not cutting their prices as most other retailers did. Change whatever you must about your business—your markets, your technologies, your people…anything.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

In the masculine model of success, power and prestige take precedence, compassion, and long term consequences are secondary. He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail. Now, it is, in essence, a mystery story and a precursor of the Indiana Jones films. Think about our world at this time.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Long-term experience will either validate or invalidate first impressions.That said, it's the first impression that buys you the privilege of having the chance to be in the game to begin with. I believe that first impressions do matter but just in the short time. Thanks for highlighting that thought in your comment.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. impact the competitive arena.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

In organizations, for example, when we have researched workplace leadership styles, women tend to excel in listening, empathizing and sharing information, while men often stand out in short-term decision making, direct communication and curbing their emotions.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. " It's not unusual for us to have short discussions that end with me saying I think we should do this, any problems you can think of? I work with a small group of leaders. That's consensus.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

They could not be more wrong - I’m here to tell you that strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive terms. They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated and they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma. However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering. It was going to be, what Katie terms, ‘a revolving closet for every woman in America.’ That was all that we had in mind as we started off on this. We are still waiting to see how it will all pan out.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. Connecting with core employees is essential to a leader’s long-term success.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society? The first step in solving the problem is to deal in whole truths, not untruths or partial truths.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2016

The global economic turmoil that began in 2008 has taught numerous lessons—the most important one: When leaders make good decisions, little else matters. If research and development or technology drive your organization, you’ll be at risk for this phenomenon than other kinds of organizations. Demand change, or it usually won’t happen.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you want your business to be a success, you need to make a long-term commitment to it, so you’d better make sure it’s something that you truly feel passionate about. Networking can lead to future opportunities in terms of help, advice and business, as well as creating a supportive network of like-minded individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. Getting the measurement right is central to providing convincing evidence on the debate over short-termism.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

During the Great Recession of 2008, companies around the world downsized their workforces. American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. Many of these effects may have long-term consequences, like reduced innovation, that are not captured in short-term financial metrics.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

He was constantly cautioning about short-term hires, and believed that you shouldn’t hire anyone whom you couldn’t keep and develop over the long haul. I would encourage you to read a previous post on “ Workforce Reduction.&#

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. I don't think we can separate the two. link] Mike Henry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But if the purpose of the company is its long-term survival, then one could make the argument that he was a failure as CEO, as he optimized short-term gains by squandering long-term opportunities. Great short-term gains but long-term prospects that are far less compelling. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

John Baldoni : You asked us to keep our answers short so I don’t have time to delineate all my faults, but let me say one thing I work on is patience. Get it done and get it done now is a real challenge that may not set up organizations for long term success. Mike Myatt : What do you see as your greatest weakness?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

During the 2008 Summer Olympics, China dazzled the world with Beijing's posh athletic venues and revamped urban landscapes. Official support and encouragement for disruptive businesses would allow innovators to create unusual and long-term value for their companies. But there are many reasons to be skeptical.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

Restrictions on the ability of Russian banks to sell financial instruments were imposed, as were bans on selling technology that would help Russia develop its vast energy reserves. An embargo on new arms sales and restrictions on so-called dual-use technologies were imposed. Even here the impact is likely to be smaller than advertised.

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Banking Short-term Politics Globalization 8

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

By developing very different capabilities than Xerox's, Canon created a new recipe for success, and in the process short-circuited Xerox's ability to retaliate quickly. JFK's intent produced many breakthrough technologies. There are two views on strategy. Take, for instance, JFK's audacious goal in the early 1960s when the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase. We examined how each initiative impacted a company’s value through changes in its stock price, which we used as a proxy for determining the short-term costs of self-disruption.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% for United Technologies and 30% for Siemens.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

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. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Amara’s law teaches us that we tend to overestimate the amount of change in the short term but under-estimate it in the long term.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

In the broader world, economic, demographic, and technological changes are forcing us all to cope with change whether we want to or not. The financial crisis of 2008 was not some once-in-a-lifetime event; rather, it was one of six financial crises since 1986. In the near future, some social media companies might meet the same fate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. In academic terms, we would put it this way: extrinsic motivation causes people to distort the truth regarding goal attainment.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The greatest leaders throughout history have been nothing short of relentless in their pursuit of knowledge. The Samsung Economic Research Institute ( [link] ) conducted a study and the results match up with yours in terms of the number of books CEOs read each month.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. As Brown explained to us, he believed in Motorola’s separation, he had recommended it to the board, and he was clearly ready to do it.

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