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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. But there’s a problem. This can make it tough for company leaders to push for innovation.

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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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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. ” From, The right way to handle a surprise : The U.S.

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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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Post-Industrial Communities Fare Badly On Sustainability

The Horizons Tracker

“But it’s also important to remember that sustainability can help make communities more competitive in the long term. Those communities with smaller fluctuations in employment, even if they experienced long-term job losses, showed greater engagement in sustainability planning, capabilities, and achievement.

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What Disengaged Employees Would Say to the Boss (If They Could Be Honest)

Michael Lee Stallard

In 2016 you received the results of your company’s employee engagement survey. Include us in goal setting. You work hard to set our department’s annual goals and achieve them. We want you to include us in planning our department’s goals. Align our individual goals with department goals.

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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.