2016, Finance, Goal and Long-term

The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

We need to be “urgently” reflective because too often by the time we find out it’s broken, it’s been broken for a very long time. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed. (To The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill.

Books

Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan

Three Key Strategies Any Business Can Adopt in 2016 to Boost Profitability

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

While customer satisfaction has been promoted as the goal of many businesses, it is customer impression that a business must aim for. If you exceedingly go above and beyond for your customers, establish a relationship, and engage them, they will remain long-term customers, and even send more business your way.

Strategy

Strategy Outsourcing Process Technology

Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). We chase short-term wins. They go after short-term wins and cannot lift their heads high enough to glimpse the future. Where are we? We keep our focus narrow.

Leadership Development

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware

Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success. How to Stop Short-Term Thinking at America’s Companies.

Short-term

Short-term Long-term Deming Management

Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The focus is on the near term. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. But in 2016 the exchanges will open to companies with 51 to 100 employees. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Insurance

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term

How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

Company

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations

Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. Second, the main goal of PE investors is to increase a firm’s value so that it can be sold for profit.

LBO

LBO Innovation Sample Short-term

Holidays Can Be Stressful. They Don’t Have to Stress Out Your Team.

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” Almost half the respondents cited finances as the main culprit for their tension, while being over-scheduled, choosing the right gifts, and remaining healthy also contributed to people’s holiday woes. But preventing it all together should be the real goal. companies roughly £11 billion in 2016. And the U.S.

Stress

Stress Team Survey Long-term

An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Although many countries have set the goal, few have achieved it. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Mission-oriented thinking could also be used to develop technology roadmaps for the 17 sustainable development goals. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance.

Venture Capitalist

Venture Capitalist Cost-Benefit Analysis Policies Drucker

How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. In fact they are always greatest over the long-term, while the costs are concentrated in the near-term.

Banking

Banking Long-term Short-term System

Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

JULY 29, 2020

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. They include: people, data-driven analytical decision-making, and showing how their actions directly impact strategic goals at the end of the day. Increasing innovation is tied to strategic goals. Quality Hires. Hiring Efficiency.

Attrition

Attrition Talent Management Agility Innovation

How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

and globally, and Habitat for Humanity, which works in 70-plus nations to provide home construction, rehabilitation, and increased access to shelter and financing, gathered data from their sites to make the case for profound change. By February 2016, more than three-quarters of the Central Territory Corps were trained in the new model.

Microfinance

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization

Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term

Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

Team

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey

The Right Way to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.

Banking

Banking Objective Finance Proposal

Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The doctor-patient relationship has long been sacrosanct. In March of 2016 we expanded the refund program system-wide to include all patients and all forms of patient individual financial responsibility (copayment, coinsurance, and deductible). Improving the former can improve the latter. It’s a horrible idea.

System

System Quality Long-term Short-term

As More People Worry About Monopolies, an Economist Explains What Antitrust Can and Can’t Do

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

During the 2016 election, both parties were saying that the system is rigged and the little guy is not getting a fair deal. It’s long-standing. First, that the goal of antitrust is to make sure that consumers benefit from the forces of competition. But it’s more than that. It’s bipartisan.

Policies

Policies Airlines Politics Proposal

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Three Key Strategies Any Business Can Adopt in 2016 to Boost Profitability

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Health Insurance Exchanges Fulfill Both Liberal and Conservative Goals

How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Holidays Can Be Stressful. They Don’t Have to Stress Out Your Team.

An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Could HR be the most data driven function?

How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

The Right Way to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure

Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

As More People Worry About Monopolies, an Economist Explains What Antitrust Can and Can’t Do

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