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How to Use Accurate Data for Strategic Decision-Making

Strategy Driven

This simple strategy of using accurate data can help dictate the health of your business, both short and long-term. What Is Data-Driven Insights and Digital Asset Management? In simple terms, data-driven insights refer to any information a company uses to make strategic decisions. What kind of data?

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Six Ways to See the World through New Lenses—and Lead More Effectively

Leading Blog

Some focus on short-term goals and on deepening their depth of knowledge in their domain of interest. Others have a long-term vision that enables them to differentiate various patterns and see how these will help them succeed. Both perspectives are limiting. Know your limitations, and try to see beyond them.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Galetti is the highest-ranking woman at Amazon and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” (short for “Senior Team”) that reports directly to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. In her seven-plus years at Amazon, three as a division leader, she has quietly become one of its most influential figures.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 For CEOs, creating and communicating long-term growth strategy is easier said than done.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

Second, there is a time horizon problem: while in some cases increasing wages or selecting suppliers with better labor practices might bring a financial benefit in the long-term, short-term pressures on the business might make business leaders averse to making such investments. Three types of investors satisfy both criteria.

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The Power of Beliefs to Move Markets and Mindsets

Harvard Business Review

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". There can be no contradiction, or so the theory goes.

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CEOs Can Attract Long-Term Investors

Harvard Business Review

But three years after the financial crisis broke, I remain more convinced than ever that the fundamental cure for restoring economic growth and repairing societal trust in business is to deepen our ability to manage companies for the long term. Acting and communicating in this fashion will also start to attract long-term investors.