Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 17, 2014

” If you want to know why so many goal setters don’t become goal achievers, you can pore over a bunch of enlightening academic studies about goals or you can watch infomercials for 15 minutes. We all set goals to get some aspect of our lives in shape. I pointed out that Bill was a 56-year-old executive.

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Chief Information Officer Executive Coaching COO Goal 119

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2011

That includes individual development goals. In a business context, individual development goals should be closely aligned with your short and long term job responsibilities. No, these are the big, hairy, audacious, goals (BHAGs). If you’re not ready for this, try a short-term expat assignment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

According to a survey conducted by SuccessFactors in 2012 , the number one benefit Millennials request upon being hiring is to receive a mentor. That puts suitable mentors in short supply for young workers. Think really short, as in, less than a month — in essence, a micro-mentor. Imagine yourself as a potential mentor.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2012

However, justifying large capital outlays for software will be challenging unless short-term benefits can be directly correlated with the investment. As more incremental projects are undertaken, it will be important to execute these projects within the long-term strategic plan of organization-wide decision management.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

first became aware of Les Hayman in July 2012 when I read his excellent guest post for Gurprriet Siingh – “ Transforming HR – How a CEO did it.” It probably did in the short term, but it meant that we were often hiring for the present rather than the future. ” Les was uniquely qualified to write this post.

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CEO Performance Review Review Learning-by-Doing 217

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Successful people tend to respond well to future-oriented advice that helps them achieve their goals. If your coach does not give up on you when you fail in the short run, you will more likely succeed in the long run. Are you willing to be a supportive coach – not a cynic, critic, or judge? Life is good. 1-858-759-0950.

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360-Degree Feedback Construction Follow-up Resistance 146

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 4, 2013

My goal is to help you learn and grow, with assistance from some of the greatest executive coaches and the most successful leaders in the world. One of the reasons that he is quoted so frequently is that he had the gift of distilling meaningful concepts into short phrases. ” My first suggestion for you is simple. 1-858-759-0950.

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Advice Drucker Learning-by-Doing Report 98

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.” Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. We get back to core stuff.”

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Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

This mutual goal achievement is represented in the red collaborative overlap of the twin circles: here representing the company and the individual (although they can also represent any two parties coming together). When values are compromised and when people are disrespected, both the health and the performance of companies suffer.

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Cooper Motivation Herzberg Maslow 48

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

In this article, we focus primarily on behavioral goals, such as becoming a better listener or more effective at involving team members in decisions. Much of the published research in the field of goal setting involves health-related goals … by Marshall Goldsmith and Kelly Goldsmith. What goes wrong? Ownership.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Slate also recently published a map of where to watch for burgeoning startup communities, including Austin, Boston and even Detroit, and Cincinnati was named the number one place for startups to thrive by CNN Money in 2012. In layman’s terms, venture capitalists don’t want to fly across the country for a board meeting.

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Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

In fact, long-term business viability depends on it. Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Every company needs a corporate purpose.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

In fact, long-term business viability depends on it. Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Ambitious and include a daunting goal. Every company needs a corporate purpose.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Companies, too, will benefit from knowing which compensation practices their owners think are detrimental to building long-term shareholder value. Between January 1 and July 1, 2011, 37 companies' compensation of their top executives fell short of majority support. 2012 will tell us how well we have learned our lessons.

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TSR White Paper Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Millennials score lower than any other generation in terms of believing that people can be trusted, and that that cynicism rose in the years following the Great Recession. When they are attracted to social impact organizations, they’re those that are designed to be short-term commitments, like Teach for America or the Peace Corps.

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Short-term Survey Environment Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

So far, 2012 has been another banner year for the 'tyranny of success' as once great companies slide ever closer to the abyss. How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation?

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

billion spent on all media advertising in 2012 and more than 20 times the estimated $39.5 billion spent on Internet advertising in 2012. You need to decide what sales force size and structure best allows you to meet customer needs and achieve company goals. By our estimates, the amount invested in U.S. times the estimated $169.5

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 18, 2021

Whether it is our health…our cars…our homes…or society’s ills, we can’t solve anything with short-term fixes that merely silence the problems. Let’s look at the long game, not the short one. Only understanding the root causes and attacking the challenges at their base can solve things properly and fully.

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Diversity Short-term Root Cause Analysis Class 137

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. The short answer we find from our research is: No. Yes, some governments do give financial and other support to young companies, with the goal of helping them grow.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior.

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Strategic Planning Goal Planning Budgeting 56

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

AGI has found that an effective way to force tough tradeoff decisions is to focus on an urgent and defined timeline—one that is long enough to get something meaningful done but short enough to demand disciplined attention. Set Measurable Goals. The result was a finite set of very concrete goals. ” 2. .”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

But as Christensen observes, we often default to short-term tasks even when many of them may not connect to our bigger goals. As we fast approach 2012, my New Year's resolution is to be disciplined with my time. For 2012, consider a change and work towards the goal of better time allocation. It is possible.

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Christensen McKinsey Short-term Goal 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

So far, 2012 has been another banner year for the 'tyranny of success' as once great companies slide ever closer to the abyss. How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation?

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Maybe you remember how savagely the industry was portrayed during the 2012 U.S. Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit. At the same time, there are certain ways LBOs can actually make it easier for firms to invest in the long term.

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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Many of these failures were either fueled by or lost in the byzantine maze that is the modern enterprise, which often breeds a combustible mix of indifference and short-termism. A small number of firms are counter-intuitively becoming activists about championing their value systems, even at the risk of short term shareholder returns.

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Risk Management Ethics Management Agility 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

For comparison, Executive MBA programs in 2012 only attracted an average of 14% foreign students. Even full-time two-year MBA programs, which attracted 45% foreign students, fall far short of the international reach of these business MOOCs. One area where business MOOCs are falling short is in attracting female students.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. You're able to both observe and participate in each moment, while recognizing the implications of your actions for the longer term.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

But it’s one thing to set goals — network more, learn to meditate, or get better at writing — and quite another to actually accomplish them. A lot of people set personal and professional goals this time of year but very few succeed. “You need to set the right goals within the right timeframe.”

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Goal CAGR Career Open-book 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“Information overload and the pace of our digital lives have [led to short attention spans].” “When you adopt a certain [slumping] posture, you think in subordinate terms and you talk in subordinate terms, and it increases the likelihood that you’ll be seen as less authoritative,” Morgan says.

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Influence How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. This battle about corporate purpose parallels the bigger societal battle that Fukuyama is writing about.

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Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

And boy, have they been tedious: mostly, about eking out slightly sharper terms for deals for more yawn-inducing stuff (whether flicks, financial instruments, or kicks) that's destined not to matter. Call it a depression of human potential, a tale of human significance being willfully squandered (on, for example, stuff like this ).

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Mass Marketing Hotels Self-aware Short-term 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Whereas activists in Japan have historically been treated with scorn for attempting to extract value from the system, they can now point to the fact that their actions are consistent with the government’s policy goals. The jury is still out on Abe’s corporate governance reforms.

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ROE Construction Hedge Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Similarly, Toyota (#11) encourages innovation by removing some of the pressure for short-term returns. At Walmart (#8 on the BCL list), a group called @WalmartLabs provides a supportive environment for testing new ideas.

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Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

This means CSR initiatives tend to be short-lived, dependent as they are on the whims of senior executives rather than the value they deliver. It measures the impact of these drivers across three horizons: the near-term financial impact, the long-term financial impact, and the impact on reputation. Engage radically.

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Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Using the continuous process improvement methods that were developed for the experiment, the manager is now working to reach a 30% reduction goal over a longer time frame.

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