Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The report went on to show this has been a long-term downward trend rather than a temporary decline due to the Great Recession. Gradually over time, America has become overly obsessed about managing tasks. When managers invest time to develop connections with and among people they become real leaders who people want to follow.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Something as simple as a 360 Review, or as complex as a deep psychological profile (both with weighted emphasis on leadership aptitude) can point out an individual’s leadership capabilities.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Certainly, there will be implications for your personal life – raising questions not so much about balancing work and family in the short term, but about finding a sustainable mix for the long term. The crucial question you need to ask yourself: is it worth the cost? There will be pleasures that you must give up.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 22, 2011

Success is the result of a little small things done repeatedly like: 1 - Work ethic. My Time Management book even advocated that in the first 3 edition. This is the basis of time management. I am not even certain how I managed to attract so many good people. I worked hard and long. 2 - Focus. 4 - Knowing priorities.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Teams with strong positive cultures can weather short-term blows to engagement, such as economic downturns, anxiety over mergers, or increased competition. Culture Spark. Organizational culture is often seen as an elusive topic.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 3, 2009

Too often company executives focus on hitting the numbers for the next quarter and winning at any cost. The focus on near-term ‘valuables’ at the extent of long-term ‘values’ can prevent companies from reaching the success to which they are striving. But the patience pays off in the long run.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. This vision, if successful, must be underpinned by core ideology and then expressed with clarity and conviction.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

This ladder holds true for managers and employees within the organization, as well as outside consultants brought in. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. The Big Picture.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

This is a change from the 2010 law which based taxation of inherited assets on their original cost basis, instead of their current fair market value. million exemption and additional $3 million for married couples on inherited assets before the original cost basis rule would apply). The Bush law did allow a $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’ve been a consultant for almost 20 years, advising companies on complex challenges in ethics, risk, and responsibility. Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.” The executive needs a business case.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Managers on the ground should be prepared with the following line: “I can’t give you a bribe, but I can do this, this and this, for you,” says Kent Kedl, the senior partner for Greater China and North Asia at Control Risks. Build the cost of avoiding bribery into your business projections.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

And management techniques, practices, and strategies are no different. When you read a business book or attend a presentation on a particular management practice, it is a good habit to explicitly ask, “What might it not be good for?” How can these organizations combine higher quality with lower costs?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

The swift discipline of employees who violate ethical standards is recommended. These people may be unethical, but they get the job done, and enhance the organization’s short-term profitability along the way. This is the case even in organizations that on the whole are considered highly ethical.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. See training as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. The company which makes the small investment on the front end (training) saves higher costs. Management – Introduction. What is their longevity?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Most sales forces focus a good deal of their attention on the short term — on bringing in today’s sales or making this quarter’s numbers. Sales leaders divide the national sales goal among sales managers, who allocate their portion of the goal to their salespeople. They avoid rushing to fill a position.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. But this can also impose costs on people not directly connected to the company. naqiewei/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Any internet platform company doing business in China has to negotiate a major business and ethical dilemma: The Chinese government enforces overbearing regulations that censor speech in the name of national security and, under common conceptions of international norms, violate human rights. ” Google’s bind is a common one.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

We conducted a comprehensive review of research findings on employee self-control in a forthcoming paper in the Academy of Management Annals. Our review makes clear that helping employees maintain self-control is an important task if organizations want to be more effective and ethical. billion annually.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But how much do these hazards actually cost global companies in emerging markets? The average cost per company over that time has been $1.38 billion, with the cost per incident estimated at $325 million. The average cost per company over that time has been $1.38 Those are the costs. Which are the most costly?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

telling a manager to maximize current profits, market share, future growth profits, and anything else one pleases will leave that manager with no way to make a reasoned decision. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". Some want to hold their shares for only a short time and care only about tomorrow's stock price.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2022

Even though a group may provide comfort and security, it doesn’t guarantee that their motives are pure or that they’re thinking rationally or ethically. Exhibit a poor work ethic. Win at all costs. That includes cheating a customer for short-term gain. Some folks assume that others know better. Make Good Choices.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Just as the countryman killed the goose, selfish people are so greedy and short-sighted that they make decisions against their own interests every day. Maximizing short-term profits. Instead of focusing on long-term customer relationships, you try to make a quick buck, and jeopardize future business. Are You Grateful?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

As a result, workers are less productive, less healthy, even less ethical. In the short term, this will likely mean a pay increase for newly eligible workers, at least on an hourly basis. By raising the cost of overtime for employers, would reform lead to saner work hours? What about overwork?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

But there are costs to such shortsightedness, as Volkswagen’s example makes clear. At Blue Circle Industries, a global construction materials business that is now part of LafargeHolcim, top management struggled to communicate a purpose that could resonate across all parts of its highly diversified portfolio.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Looking back on my journey, I feel buoyed by this quote from investor Charlie Munger: “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” Early on in my business life, I was naïve about the motives of some people.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The short answer is yes. More agreeable men across multiple industries made an average of 18% less in income and were evaluated as less likely to have management potential as compared to less agreeable men. ” Gender policing means imposing normative gender expressions in terms of behavior or appearance. Displaying empathy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The “ accelerated recognition of commercial income and delayed accrual of costs” undoubtedly flatters short-term results, but it soon catches up with you, as four suspended senior executives have found out. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. How did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

” He realized that, despite all the skills he had developed through his years of management education and professional development, he’d never been directed to take a long look in the mirror and ask questions about who he was, what he valued, and what it really meant to be a leader. Leadership & Managing People Book.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

My colleagues and I did an experiment in which I gave participants difficult ethical challenges where there seemed to be no good choice. But when we think in terms of “could,” we stay open-minded and the trade-offs involved inspire us to come up with creative solutions. ” or “What could you do?”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. This philosophy has started to take its toll.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The insight behind Zipcar comes from an analysis of three fundamental trends: increasing urban densities, the growing preference for convenience in a time-scarce world, and a growing green ethic. The future success of Zipcar may rely as much on the strength and speed of those trends as it will on the effective management of the company.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

We’ll walk you through a couple of simple steps that will help you ensure that your marketing budget is used in the most cost-effective way possible. In short, make sure you’re investing your advertising budget wisely by aiming at the right audiences. Be a caring and ethical employer to show that your business can be trusted.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

You’ve seen it before, even if you are less aware of the marketing term: when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced their divorce, Norwegian Air launched a print ad in UK newspapers offering low-cost flights to Los Angeles under the headline ‘Brad is single.’ So what is ‘reactive advertising’ and why is it important?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

The consequences of such insidious biases can be quite costly to an organization, from leading it to hire or promote the wrong candidates to investing in less innovative ideas just because of who proposed them to crossing ethical boundaries. And some of these biases are unconscious, including racial, gender, and income discrimination.

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