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Does The Age Of A Board Affect Company Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Many CEOs, the top leaders of companies, often focus on short-term goals because that’s how they’re rewarded in their jobs. The study looked at data from big companies in the S&P 1500 list from 1992 to 2016. “Subordinate managers run the company day to day. But there’s a problem.

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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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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’

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How To Successfully Achieve Your Goals This Year

Tanveer Naseer

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of being invited to be the in-studio guest expert on CBC Radio to discuss why people have a hard time keeping their New Year’s Resolutions and what we should be doing to be successful in achieving our goals. And where will it lead your organization once you’ve achieved it?

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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

In 2016, Alibaba facilitated sales of $15 billion. In 2016, Black Friday and Cyber Monday saw less than 3.5 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.

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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?

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Why Diversity Hiring Is Important

ExactHire - Leadership

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. Yet, in 2016, just 30.8 Workplace Diversity Goals in Hiring.

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