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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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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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Executives Tip More When Their Companies Do Well

The Horizons Tracker

This, admittedly short-term, boost in generosity, it also appears to be stronger among employees of firms that provide more stock-based compensation, which has an impact on how employees can impact the local economy. They focused on pickups within 100 meters of public firms with a HQ in NYC.

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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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Strategic Resolutions for 2016

Strategy Driven

Corporate leaders should hear this as a clarion call that awakened us all to the fact that we can no longer afford the short-sighted luxury of considering decision-making a passive, pristine process. Indecision usually carries no short-term penalty, so deciding not to decide becomes a seemingly safer default position.

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Hate Crimes Rose By More In Leave Voting Areas After Brexit

The Horizons Tracker

The study compares hate crimes between the countries of the UK since the Brexit referendum in 2016. “Significant questions remain over the short- and long-term governance of hate crime.

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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.