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The Complexity of Business Communication

CoachStation

We may well be overcomplicating the language of leadership and business. Gabrielle Dolan: The Future of Leadership Conference, Bris, Sept 2015 After attending the Future of Leadership – Workplace Culture conference in Brisbane last week I have been reflecting on the content from some of the speakers.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. What’s behind the disconnect? In contrast, current profits penalize R&D, because accounting rules require R&D to be expensed.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams.