In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Let’s look at this issue from a strategic perspective via a short check list: Define your goals. High-achieving business types usually think in quantifiable terms, such as accelerating project due dates, reducing customer complaints, identifying cost reduction opportunities, driving sales, increasing profit. Define the constraints.

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Constraint Human Resources Marketing Strategy Short-term 200

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2011

These demands may produce positive results in the short term, but they are not sustainable in the long term. It’s about harnessing and unleashing the full potential of frustrated employees—those who want to give their best but can’t due to organizational barriers and constraints.”

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Short-term Constraint Long-term Teamwork 279

QAspire

MARCH 30, 2022

As attrition soared amidst pandemic, companies had to initiate short term measures to retain their best talent which included tactics like special salary hikes, off-cycle pay outs, work-from-anywhere options and offering special learning opportunities. One day he approached me (a skip level meeting) requesting a short conversation.

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Sharpe Short-term Attrition Open-book 99

In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 20, 2014

Let’s look at this issue from a strategic perspective via a short check list: Define your goals. High-achieving business types usually think in quantifiable terms, such as accelerating project due dates, reducing customer complaints, identifying cost reduction opportunities, driving sales, increasing profit. Define the constraints.

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Constraint Human Resources Crisis Management Short-term 185

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2016

There has been a lot of interest in the term “Jugaad” in the last couple of years. This term is almost synonymous to “Indian Innovation.” Using an innovative way of solving problems with the same rigor and scrutiny for longer term applicability. So is there “Good” Jugaad and “Bad” Jugaad? Yes, I think so.

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Short-term Long-term Engineering Constraint 150

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 18, 2015

The calculation defines gain in financial terms. Customer Value : delighting customers with meaningful solutions that meet real needs within the customers’ contexts and constraints; perhaps even creating new markets and industries. In today’s world, financial measures alone are too narrow. are only part of the picture.

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ROI Short-term Long-term Metrics 70

In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2012

Suffice to say, most of the issues were short-term and operational rather than strategic. These are the folks who don’t know the difference between strategy and tactics – those who view strategy as a needless constraint. I recognize that there are many people in leadership positions who desperately want to be more strategic.

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Strategy Short-term Constraint Strategic Planning 196

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 22, 2023

Similarly, the unpleasant person can force people to do things, but will only get resentment back; they can in the short term terrorize outsiders – but that means they’re not going to get many allies. being decent is not just a constraint that holds you back.)

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How To Open-book Wilde Constraint 113

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Suffice to say, most of the issues were short-term and operational rather than strategic. These are the folks who don’t know the difference between strategy and tactics – those who view strategy as a needless constraint. I recognize that there are many people in leadership positions who desperately want to be more strategic.

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Strategy Short-term Constraint Strategic Planning 122

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

He’s also a sought-after speaker on subjects ranging from competitive advantage to strategy to leadership. That high performing blend tends to adapt fastest in the short and very long term. So keep your strategy short, focus on what it means and how it will allow you to get where you want to go. He holds an M.B.A.

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Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage Document Short-term 112

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 25, 2015

It was a wonderful, heart-felt moment that gave us a glimpse into what it was like to work under Jon Stewart’s leadership at The Daily Show. It’s this very philosophy of leadership that I saw past and present team members of The Daily Show celebrating on Stewart’s last show.

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Long-term Short-term Learning-by-Doing Politics 100

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 26, 2011

Guest post by John Mattone , Business Author, Senior Faculty Member of Talent Management Alliance and President of Executive Development Associates (EDA), a global leadership consulting firm that specializes in executive assessment, development, and coaching. Modest leaders see fiscal and operational constraints as safeguards—not hindrances.

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Loyalty Reference Maturity Human Capital 256

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Suffice to say, most of the issues were short-term and operational rather than strategic. These are the folks who don’t know the difference between strategy and tactics – those who view strategy as a needless constraint. Strategy bell Leadership strategy' Squeaky wheels get the grease.

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Strategy Short-term Constraint Strategic Planning 74

Rajesh Setty

JUNE 2, 2013

Faking calmness seems easy but it only works in the short-term. Faking competence seems easy but it only works in the short-term. It is to take a concept, idea, product or service and choreograph its amplification creatively and within the constraints imposed by the situation.

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Power Constraint Competitive Advantage Short-term 60

QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

Selflessness is at the core of great leadership. Best, Tanmay By Setu Vora, July 15, 2010 @ 12:26 pm Long term growth and cultivating people is ideal. Oftentimes, in the larger corporate culture of focussing on quarterly results, the priority becomes the immediate short- term strategy–leading to high risk growth.

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Long-term Short-term Quality Blog 153

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. But many of these people rarely dig deeper into understanding the real needs, circumstances and constraints. Allen Kramer : Reflection: Work with Assured Labor.

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Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

The amount of exercise and sleep we get and the food we eat can greatly influence these mental functions in the short term—even within hours. Move your body and eat in ways that set you up for success in the short term. Relate Articles: Leadership Inspirations – Playing the Cards You Are Dealt.

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Short-term Learning-by-Doing Competitive Advantage Long-term 50

Deming Institute

MAY 16, 2016

With a theory you have something to test and you document constraints to consider in improvement. Also it is important to keep the flowcharts updated; often they are used only for a short term need. these tools… are really starting to allow for sharing leadership and for everyone have a voice.

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Deming Influence Seminar Education 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

Even when funded, social entrepreneurs cannot compete head to head on that basis; in the survey, even entrepreneurs with a high level of funding continued to cite budget constraints as a top hiring barrier. Fred Swaniker of the African Leadership Group, who has founded four Africa-based organizations, spends about half his time on hiring.

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Self-confidence is one of the elements of active coping, a set of behaviors central to executive success that I've identified in my work assessing executives for senior leadership roles. Among the relationships examined were those among gender, coping, and motivation in the evaluation of leadership effectiveness.

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Charisma Short-term Constraint Leadership Styles 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

companies, in general, don''t have the long-term view that they need. He''s a firm believer that many US firms struggle in frontier markets because they''re compelled to a short term view. I asked Neville how he convinced shareholders to take those long term bets at Coca-Cola. I''m not going to invest in that.

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Long-term Marketing Short-term Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

In (very) short, HP had fired its CEO (for unrelated reasons), who was a good friend of Oracle's boss. Days thereafter, however, HP hired a new CEO and new Chairman, both of whom were not really on friendly terms with Oracle's boss at all. In technical terms, a marriage contract is "incomplete" and "open ended" in its specifics.

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Short-term Software Constraint Commitment 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

There has been even more stability in analytical leadership, change management, and culture, and in many cases those remain the toughest problems to address. Cloud-based analytics made it possible for organizations to acquire massive amounts of computing power for short periods at low cost. In short, all analytical boats have risen.

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Open-book Software Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own. Others – such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank and Lillian Galbreth, Herbert R. Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

The problem may lie in the constraints endemic to identity politics. But fifty years later, they would appear to have benefitted from neither, relative to women and black men, in terms of their empowerment and advancement. And yet white women are about twice as likely as black women to attain one.

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Banking Bond Diversity Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Pricing textbooks certainly all assume they do, or at least that they want to achieve a certain profit level under given constraints. 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.

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Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2018

An optional full-day retreat in November 2017 attracted more than 10% of UCAR’s staff and approximately 85% of our senior leadership to discuss future diversity and inclusion efforts and strategic planning. Invite non-managers to foster communication across the organization. Each cohort brings new challenges and learning opportunities.

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Diversity Succession Participative Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

And they faced big constraints. For major collaboration projects, Dana-Farber assigned coleaders who shouldered the administrative burdens while the superstar researcher provided the thought leadership. Take the heat of other short-term goals so that time spent collaborating feels like less of an opportunity cost.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Be up front about organizational constraints. You might suggest they work on a cross-functional project, volunteer to do a short stint in another division, or join a company-wide committee that requires interacting with people in other parts of the organization. Be frank that the person lacks certain leadership qualities, for example.

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Learning-by-Doing Short-term Goal Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Denver Post/Getty Images.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Vision incorporates the long-term, if not permanent, purpose and principles of an organization, which serve as the north star for all its actions. The company wanted to clarify its launch strategy for a new product, so I created an intense one-day workshop for the leadership team to move them quickly from exploration to formulation.

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Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Every business operates within a set of constraints that effectively wall off opportunities. The constant pressure to meet short-term profit projections forces companies to cut costs and lay off employees. What was it that enabled these CEOs to see through the walls that stopped their competitors short?

CEO 13

CEO Constraint Health Care Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Moving past these “digital plateaus” will require a conscious effort by these countries to reinvent themselves, to bet on a rising digital technology in which it has leadership, and to eliminate impediments to innovation.

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Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8