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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

Leadership Tip: The most effective leaders treat culture-shifting as a serious business process that’s explicitly tied to business results. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. Learn from the Mistakes of A Rotten Culture.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

For example, the rapidly evolving field of biomimicry examines nature's models and processes to help solve human problems. Breakthrough requires an end to systemic inequities by opening up processes, information - and markets. Zeitz is also rolling out the EP&L across the holding group PPR. Breakthrough Access.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

Consider management actions such as cutting jobs and investment as a response to currency fluctuations and the resulting accounting impact of those cuts on earnings per share (EPS). Share buybacks are preferred to investment in innovation, entrepreneurship, and value creation. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009.

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Why I'm Glad I Got Fired

Harvard Business Review

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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