Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Engagement for engagement sake will only ever bring short-term results; engagement around a cause, however, will keep your employees motivated for years. Her book is a finalist in the Leadership category of the Business Book Awards 2019. Make Confidence a daily discussion. For information, please visit this link.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2016

If you’re looking to buy them for your team, CEO Reads offers some great quantity discounts, and we would be happy to customize with a personalized template. Where the other three manager types tend to focus on short-term goals, managers who win well have a longer time horizon. What does it mean to Win Well?

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Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 3, 2015

offer a discount on our products?) We want our decision to be “right,” so we look for confirmation and discount or ignore evidence to the contrary. Overcome short-term emotion – Give yourself a “cooling off” period before acting on a decision. Decision-making is a function of leadership.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts. The 100% boundary can get crowded and those obsessed with winning or defending their territory often resort to non-strategic tactics. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits. The new economy doesn’t operate that way.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. The move is aimed at leading by example, motivating employees and ensuring business viability in the short-term.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

Whether it’s the style of play in a sport, or leadership style in the business world, men and women are clearly and obviously different. But that hardly means that the style of women is in any way inferior. In fact, men excel at certain traits and women shine with different skills.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. The move is aimed at leading by example, motivating employees and ensuring business viability in the short-term.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering. It was going to be, what Katie terms, ‘a revolving closet for every woman in America.’ That was all that we had in mind as we started off on this. We are still waiting to see how it will all pan out.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma. However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 2, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: Leading Effectively E-Newsletter | Main | Check Out The Leadership Development Carnival at Great Leadership!   However, their thoughts and opinions are often considered naive and discounted or disregarded altogether. 

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LDRLB

JULY 23, 2012

The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts. The 100% boundary can get crowded and those obsessed with winning or defending their territory often resort to non-strategic tactics. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits. The new economy doesn’t operate that way.

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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. Take Action that Matters: Lend your skills (need not be for free but surely at a discounted rate at first) and move the needle.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

Good Company is an inspiring and uplifting read for those of us working to bring about a values-based leadership revolution. In order to do so, they must combine competitive savvy with a genuine desire to do more than maximize short-term profits or enrich a narrow circle of stakeholders.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you want your business to be a success, you need to make a long-term commitment to it, so you’d better make sure it’s something that you truly feel passionate about. Networking can lead to future opportunities in terms of help, advice and business, as well as creating a supportive network of like-minded individuals.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JANUARY 17, 2018

When we compare ourselves to genius…or even to a perceived “natural”…then we don’t have to feel bad about falling short because our relative disadvantage is out of our control. It then becomes easy to discount the long hours of practice that an expert has expended on his skill to achieve greatness.

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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. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2011

Most fail far short of the owners’ ambitions. This insightful book makes three points clear: The key to long term business success is for the leader to declare war on him/herself so that the company never rests on its laurels. Rudderless Leadership. There are millions of companies in the world. How can that be?

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, super discounters such as Aldi, Lidl, and Amazon are further squeezing already thin food retail margins for large retailers. too short, long, big, small or uneven in shape, too red or not red enough, and so on). As owners of private label food products and shelf space, large food retailers can play a leadership role here.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2016

Moreover, this type of incentive system to motivate employees also aligned well with the more traditional management structures in Chinese companies where decision-making is centralized and leadership is equated to a large extent with adhering to quotas and other pre-established criteria.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

As this argument holds, the short-term pressure of the capital markets, coupled with management incentives tied tightly to stock prices, make it hard for companies to investment in new growth businesses. Perhaps the root problem is leadership limitations. That's not to say that there haven't been success stories.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

In phase one (buy and sell), PE investors looked for the equivalent of a “fixer-upper house” — a dilapidated company in a good industry that could be purchased at a discount and, after the business equivalent of some fresh paint and new appliances, resold for a profit.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

It is the terms of that takeover that Greenberg is challenging with his lawsuit. Read Carol Loomis's Fortune profile of Greenberg at his peak , in 1998, and one can't entirely discount this argument. In an age of short-term, hired-hand CEOs, there's a lot to admire in his commitment. Le entreprise, c'est moi.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

For example, research has identified three results that all leadership teams need to achieve: strong performance, positive working relationships, and individual well-being. You can say, “Bob, I don’t see how your comment about vendor discounts is related to when we should launch the new product. Renee Cullinan.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2019

Choose a network—which they sometimes rent from a larger carrier—to ensure discounts on bills. How should a company go about designing value-based care programs that achieve both short-term and long-term success? Getting to know employees’ unique needs is an important next step that helps achieve short-term success.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In relative short order, today’s sought-after new skills in robotics, software, virtual reality and the like will evolve or obsolesce, so it’s smart to invest, as AT&T is doing, in building a culture of continual reinvention, rather than relying on wholesale talent swap outs.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. The client who contracts a quantity of time may request a volume discounted fee.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Instead, they treat it ad hoc, one question at a time, over a short period of time. Regarding the first point, we found that many MNCs fall short in four areas: Their processes for determining and changing prices are too rigid , which means they are not set up to respond quickly enough to currency and other changes in local conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

These company strengths have a lot to do with their family ownership and family leadership. In a very competitive industry where margins are low and sales are hard fought every single day, Market Basket performs well against encroaching giants and big box discounters. Failure Leadership' And this is also true at Market Basket.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

When Sarah Robb O’Hagan agreed to take over Gatorade in 2008, she thought she was assuming leadership of an iconic brand that had grown a little tired. And truly disruptive innovations weren’t an option either, at least in the short term. Consider the example of Gatorade in 2008. Growth restarted almost immediately.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Absentee leadership. ‘End of the month’ is long term. ‘End of the day’ is short term. Product discounting is chronic. Revival is not too late, but whatever you do. remember, the steps you take must be transformational, not incremental. Lack of vision. High employee turnover. Long payables.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

After a horrifying school shooting in Parkland, Florida put companies’ relationships with the National Rifle Association (NRA) under a microscope, Delta joined more than half a dozen major companies by eliminating a discount program for NRA members. Ironically, the discount had only been claimed by thirteen of Delta’s customers!

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