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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

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. They simply get a letter from me every two years and call me when they wish.

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

N2Growth Blog

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? So they don’t.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

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. The goal of ARD is to produce denim in a sustainable way by tackling the three main ecological issues the industry faces: water, energy, and chemicals.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business Review

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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Research: The Digitization of Banks Disproportionately Hurts Women Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

European banks, for example, closed over 9,000 branches in 2016, which represents a 4.6% It turns out that women entrepreneurs who seek to finance their ventures using bank financing are increasingly forced to find solutions elsewhere. reduction in a single year. Studies show that women have lower access to capital, for example.