In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. The delusion is that market share is the “be all and end all” of business success. Their horizon is markets that do not exist.

Sports 228

Sports Tactics Competitive Advantage Short-term 228

HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

It is a tough time as they bank on social capital and how to maintain cohesion without the benefit of informal coffee, lunch or smoke breaks. In terms of magnitude, it’s akin to the Industrial Revolution that was felt on the agricultural community.

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McKinsey Aggregate Demand Industry Crisis 134

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It’s the path to leadership. DON’T STOP SHORT. If you want to succeed, you have to have a long-term, big-picture focus. She’d failed the LSAT, was hawking, of all things, fax machines, and had roughly $5,000 in her bank account. You either fail before you succeed, or you fail before you quit. Not too shabby.

Succession 259

Succession How To Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 259

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Specifically, of how the values an organization uses to define who they are and what they’re all about tend to be contradicted by the decisions and choices their leaders make regarding the best way to achieve their short term goals.

Short-term 100

Short-term Ethics Learning-by-Doing Politics 100

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2017

Consider your target demographic, budget, and your goals in both the short and long term. However, there are a lot of other cushion sellers out there, so you need to be able to compete with them to stand out in the market place. Poor marketing. It may cost a little in the short term, but is vital for the long term.

How To 55

How To Short-term Budgeting Long-term 55

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

A powerful way to do this, called mobile recruitment uses text messaging (SMS: Short Message Service) to allow workers to find jobs. I was directed to two companies already working in this market, Baba Jobs in India and Assured Labor in Latin America. Allen Kramer : Reflection: Work with Assured Labor.

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Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Glean These 19 Ideas & Tips to Skyrocket Your Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Victoria Greene , an ecommerce brand marketing consultant, freelance writer, and small business owner with a pulse on the future of online selling. Starting Your Own Business? Have you ever thought about running your own business?

Tips 95

Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Dickens Jr.

Brand 64

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 64

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. Over the course of the last few decades, multinationals have entered and left “frontier markets” like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, Myanmar, and others.

Politics 10

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Businesses need to organize around long-term strategies for growth and partnership in a sustainable way. The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns.

Industry 10

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

News of the United Kingdom’s vote to Leave the European Union shook financial markets Friday, and signalled the start of potentially years of economic uncertainty for Europe. How much control do policymakers have over what the economic fallout is — short- and medium-term? But long term, this is a very big deal.

Banking 8

Banking Short-term Long-term Policies 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

AUGUST 17, 2021

Long story short, depending on a person’s short-term goals and long-term aspirations, money isn’t always the primary factor motivating them at work. These employees want more than a paycheck because they’re taking a long-term view. For the employer: The free market has an invisible hand. Invest in yourself.

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Short-term Long-term Ethics Motivation 137

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. The Commonwealth Bank appeared to shareholders as simply putting out a fire.

TSR 8

TSR Banking Committee Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

It's co-authored with a couple new colleagues of his at the Bank of England (one a former tax lawyer , the other a physicist ), and scores higher than average on the Haldane wonkiness scale. Which is an interesting thing for the executive director of financial stability at the Bank of England to be doing.

Banking 11

Banking Long-term Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. The result has been a clear success. It is both local and national.

Case Study 14

Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. The fall can come quickly.

Banking 12

Banking Strategy Film Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. During this period, climate change became a central issue in political and economic debate, leading to a range of regulatory, market, and physical risks and opportunities. Wallace Garrison/Getty Images.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Years of economic mismanagement.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. She develops plans for filling senior leadership positions a full year in advance, speaking with candidates on a regular basis to build strong relationships. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2016

Research we conducted at the Center for Talent Innovation reveals a remarkable correlation between inclusive leadership, innovative output, and market growth. Management endorsed her proposal to make over the New Delhi and Kolkata branches into all-women-staffed banks.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Case Study Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A friend who has worked for decades at the Bank of America told me that the company fully understood the poor loans it was making. The people working for the bank weren't idiots. If the analyst didn't like the fact that this might constrain profits in the short term, he could sell the stock. But that's not what goes on.

CEO 13

CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We won't know where anyone stands on the real issues that China's leadership needs to address, because no one's willing to stick their neck out and talk about them. Meanwhile, China's leadership is failing to address pressing problems. And in the meantime, the world waits for China's leaders to show some real leadership.

Leadership 8

Leadership Short-term Committee Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

Venture Funding 12

Venture Funding Banking Participative Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

And despite their relatively short existences, digital platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Snapchat are wreaking havoc on traditional businesses. Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market. Demand quickly bounced back.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. The result?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

As the head of a leadership assessment, development, and coaching firm, I spend a lot of time with successful executives talking about their work lives — and in the past few years, many of those conversations have centered on an increasingly popular, and increasingly idealized, imagined next step: the so-called “portfolio career.”

Career 8

Career Succession How To Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else. But haven't we heard this before?

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

To foster a conversation about the potential implications of connected experiences for designers, technologists, and business people, Albert’s team at Microsoft recently released a short film documentary called “Connecting: Makers.”. Sometimes this is done creatively, as with the razor-and-blades model made famous by Gillette.

Business Model 13

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. Multinational beer companies have responded by investing in or acquiring large craft brewers such as Lagunitas, Craft Brew Alliance, and Goose Island to gain an immediate foothold in the market.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Instead, the regulatory filing simply listed, in summary fashion, “factors” supporting the raise, without any analysis elsewhere: JPM’s long-term performance; gains in market share and customer satisfaction; resolution of regulatory issues; improved control structures and processes; and leadership improvements.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

They are listed below, each with an example: Profit maximization (long-term): A bank offers accounts to students at a special interest rate to attract a segment of customers whose incomes will later increase. Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Most organizations will shrink or disappear in the long term: only a third of excellent companies remain excellent for decades, and when organizations try to transform themselves, even fewer succeed. For these to be embraced in the long term, the right leadership skills and mind-sets must also be in place.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Engineering Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors? Outside the U.S., Largely unnoticed in the U.S.,

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. But when it comes to little-known leaders in their market, Germany has 1,307 “hidden champions,” nine times as many as those two countries combined.

Industry 8

Industry Long-term Short-term Class 8