Strategy Driven

AUGUST 31, 2015

The truth is, they usually can’t see the bigger, long-term picture or aren’t willing to make the necessary tradeoffs. Serial winners understand this fundamental truth about success: When you’re pushing hard toward a goal, balance cannot be the priority. It’s where many projects or goals die. The priority is getting the job done.

Competitive Advantage 50

Competitive Advantage Greenleaf Long-term Short-term 50

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 23, 2015

Lisa Mininni reminds leaders that we can consciously choose to pass through the fear and picture what we will feel like, accomplish, and gain when we take a step toward our goals. While these actions might require you to make short-term sacrifices of time or energy, they’ll bring you pleasure and good karma. Dr. Nancy D.

Development 100

Development Stress Belief Systems Learning-by-Doing 100

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Diversity is complicated, and that’s why most companies fail to meet their Diversity, Equity & Inclusion goals. Most business owners think of diversity in the workplace in terms of the compliance regulations imposed by the federal government. Businesses tend to see diversity as a numbers issue.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. We get back to core stuff.”

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The short answer is yes. An informative set of studies from 2015 finds that when male (but not female) leaders ask for help, they are viewed as less competent, capable, and confident. Empathy is an important part of leadership. Does that same hold true for men? Let’s look at each of these behaviors: Showing vulnerability.

Short-term 14

Short-term Self-aware Diversity Career 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Testing and Learning Identify—and actively communicate and learn from—short-term wins. Benchmarks for Success Measure progress toward the goal. And a pool of independent and highly skilled workers who can fill those needs is growing.

Content 9

Content Katz Forrester Budgeting 9

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Our goal is to fuel your fire, but that''s only the beginning. CED fuels that fire by selling T-shirts, wristbands, shorts and other clothing featuring motivational and inspirational slogans. Jake : Learning to wear multiple hats while maintaining focus on the long-term. Every day," explains Jake, who also founded CED.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Advice Apparel Audience 73

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2015

P odcasting was a massive trend in 2014, virtual summits are in 2015. For me as the host, this summit was a powerhouse of lessons on leadership, interacting with true leaders, and organizing a global event with massive organic growth. Leadership is not about the leader, it’s about serving those who follow.

Organization 120

Organization Leadership Engineering Entrepreneur 120

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios. billion in 2010 to $4.9

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Smart business then, is when all participants involved in achieving a common goal are coordinated in an online network and use machine-learning technology to efficiently leverage data in real time to generate relevant responses. In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. It’s not planning at all.

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Business Model Technology Retail Short-term 235

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, by working closely with its 822 sheep farmers during a season of poor Spring weather in 2015 that delayed lamb maturation, Sainsbury’s in the UK was able to extend the lamb season by five weeks. too short, long, big, small or uneven in shape, too red or not red enough, and so on).

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We still believe the executives at Tejon Ranch made some mistakes, as did we, but our biggest collective mistake was thinking in terms of threats rather than opportunities. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership—an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight. That’s not to say leadership isn’t important.

Leadership 50

Leadership Early Adopters Follow-up Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2018

In 2015, UCAR appointed Brinkworth as the Director for Diversity, Education, and Outreach (DEO), (later called the Chief Diversity Officer), and was tasked with making UCAR more diverse and inclusive. But UCAR very strongly believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental to producing our best science.

Diversity 10

Diversity Succession Participative Workshop 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

By making such a bet, IBM will face much greater resistance than Gerstner faced, both internally (business units protecting turf) and externally (investors decrying the poor short-term results and future risks). To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g., Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

In 2015, Russia’s government spending was still greater than India’s – at approximately $257 billion— despite the massive devaluation of the ruble. This worked, because both crises were short-lived (lasting approximately 1-1.5 years) and were followed by rapid recoveries. Demand quickly bounced back.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

When people who share the same ambitious goals come together, they can move mountains. Any company that wants to improve collaboration, break down so-called siloes, or live into its diversity goals will be well-served by pursuing a deeper understanding of each.

Innovation 8

Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 31, 2016

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

Development 100

Development Argyris Learning-by-Doing Innovation 100

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2015

This short, yet intense excerpt from the movie Predator provides an important insight into one’s character. Do it on your own terms, but just do it. Set a goal of accomplishing one small, tiny thing. You’ve just given yourself the gift of perseverance and the permission to grieve on your own terms. Then do it.

Long-term 50

Long-term Short-term COO Commitment 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a recent survey , 70% of respondents said that CEOs focus too much on short-term financial results, and nearly 60% said that they don’t focus enough on positive long-term impact. These findings mirror the growing chorus of voices in business and academia that point to short-termism as being a major threat to business.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Our goal, in a randomized controlled experiment at Gap, was to shift retail associates to more-stable schedules and study the business results. Once the full experiment was launched in November 2015, 28 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago were randomly assigned to control and intervention groups.

Retail 8

Retail Productivity Products Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This is the exclusive, short story of how Diageo North America, with creativity and guts, both in operations and in the senior ranks, achieved the holy grail of carbon emissions reductions. They settled on a still-aggressive goal of 50%, made it public , and, remarkably, crossed their fingers. 3) Leadership matters.

Globalization 8

Globalization Cost Bottom-up Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

More than 365 companies and investors voiced their support for the US Clean Power Plan in 2015. Companies invested significant resources in pushing for high public policy ambition in agreeing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Ultimately, long-term legitimacy, reputation, and license to operate are at stake.

Globalization 10

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Pixar announced in September that the release of The Good Dinosaur , originally scheduled for 2014, would be postponed to 2015. Our goal isn’t to prevent all the problems; our goal is making good movies. The reason it didn’t happen was that companies went for a more short-term gain, which was to go to lower-cost labor overseas.

Creativity 10

Creativity Film Management Short-term 10

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But how do we know if we’re truly being empathetic in our leadership? And for Lincoln, the fact that they not only re-elected him to a second term, but gave his Republican party a majority in Congress showed him that they supported his vision for their country and how he plans to go about making it a reality.

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Power Film Leadership Emotional Intelligence 277

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the world pivoted in a historic way toward sustainability. In response to Trump’s election and his statements doubting climate change, many countries that signed the Paris climate accords in 2015 made it clear they would power on (China in particular — see story number three, below). Then came 2016.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8