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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business Review

This is a classic story of unintended consequences — inadvertently short-circuiting long-term management — to the detriment of companies, investors, and the economy. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” More than half (53%) of Latinas and 44% of Latinos say that EP at their company is defined by conforming to traditionally white, male standards.

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What Would Happen if the U.S. Stopped Requiring Quarterly Earnings Reports?

Harvard Business Review

Over the years, I have heard from plenty of managers who have lamented that the pressure of quarterly earnings targets imposes a heavy toll on their ability to focus on the long term. Some of the managers actively advocate doing away with quarterly reporting. Moreover, twice yearly reporting would make companies less transparent.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Crucially, he concludes that our unconscious mental frames “shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions.” Another example includes and biomimicry—using lessons Nature learned over 3.8

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Why I'm Glad I Got Fired

Harvard Business Review

I was being asked to be the complementary half: the internal candidate would be the outward-facing VP running the Americas, but I would run the internal operations of the $200M+ business, owning the title "revenues manager." Harley Davidson is another example, as is Fender. Lots of businesses run this way. Apple is now about desire.

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