Skip Prichard
AUGUST 25, 2019
Would you share an example of where “culture” was rotten and the ensuing results? There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. That example highlights the glaring importance of focusing on culture. For example, we talk in the book about Pope Francis.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2017
While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Consider three examples.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
The financial crisis is a prime example of too few people holding the reins. For example, the rapidly evolving field of biomimicry examines nature's models and processes to help solve human problems. Perhaps surprisingly, two leading examples come from pharmaceutical companies. Breakthrough Science. Breakthrough Access.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 17, 2011
A friend of mine, Godfrey Sullivan , asked me to consider running the operations for the Americas unit at Autodesk. 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."
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