Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

What’s worse is that barring any Congressional action on this, the Bush law mandated that the estate tax would return in 2011–at 55% with an estate exemption of $1 million, the lowest exemption amount we’ve seen for many years. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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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. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. Furthermore, the enduring anchor of an organization is found in its values and ethics, not its mission.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

ranks only tenth in the world in terms of low infant mortality rates. I was angry because the national “debate” that we’ve had on health care over the past year was long on opinions and spin and very short on facts. Her response was short and sweet – “We are all unconscious. According to World Health Organization stats, the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. The brand may continue to prosper financially, but until it gets its external perception in line, it faces obstacles in the long-term.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 5, 2010

Personally… Be clear on your values and ethics… don’t compromise these to please. Don’t create short-term satisfaction to the detriment of the longer term strategy or position. Here are just a few of the top tips from our panel on managing yourself, your teams and your boss.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How does the concept help business people make critical trade-offs between short and long term or between competing, legitimate concerns of stakeholders — employees, suppliers, customers and shareowners? Among the questions they raise: shareholder value over what time frame? Does stock price accurately reflect intrinsic value?

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Three short minutes of explanation usually make excellent junior employees excited, since they feel the immediate benefits of gaining insight into decision-making processes. Emphasize long-term rewards, and set an example. Set very short-term projects. Young employees have short attention spans.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Instead, the regulatory filing simply listed, in summary fashion, “factors” supporting the raise, without any analysis elsewhere: JPM’s long-term performance; gains in market share and customer satisfaction; resolution of regulatory issues; improved control structures and processes; and leadership improvements. Boards Ethics Leadership'

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

It’s what we call “listening softer&# in asset-based thinking terms. However, I am extremely grateful for the knowledge I have gained in the short period of time. Ethical leadership calls for morals, fairness, caring, sharing, no false promises or unreasonable demands on others, etc. Happy New Year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. His biceps were visible under his t-shirt and his short hair was still wet from exercise.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

These are the visionaries who advise management in refining the organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics and contributions toward the company’s long-term growth. Those organizations and managers who use terms like ‘world class’ are usually wanna-be’s who won’t ever quite make the measuring stick.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. Pro-bono community involvement is a factor because it indicates character, ethics and integrity.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

New year projections are the best time to benchmark progress and adjust sights for the coming term. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. View goals as long-term, rather than short-term.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

70% of corporate CEOs think that business is too much focused on the short-term. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5 The human body has 600 muscles.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Values in terms of savings: Time and motion savings. Values in terms of efficiencies: Meantime between new product introductions. Organizations get people caught in activity traps… unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior. Inventory costs.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

‘Long Day, Short Night’ by The Shirelles, Dionne Warwick and Dawn Penn. We benefit from going back and learning from our own early Body of Work, assuming that we strategized our career to be a long-term thing, as Burt Bacharach did. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Unfortunately, one can get caught in a trap of being on the short end of the equation. ” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. These people couch their requests in terms of your benefit. Ostensibly, all participants benefit from the synergy. Adopt My Interests.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. Call it a hiccup or a long-term slump; every brand faces a crisis. Unlike BP, who mismanaged an accident, Halliburton and Monsanto self-inflicted the ethical decline of their brand image over many years. March 21, 2011 at 4:16 pm. >Hi

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. Now is the time for term limits.

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