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What is Great Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

The focus of leaders is on utilizing people as a company’s most important product, to establish missions, strategies and goals for the organization. It forces leaders to rank employees base on value, performance and teaming as they consider the budgets made available to them.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business Review

The first believes the company’s goal is to maximize shareholder value. Countries that operate under common law, including the United States and the United Kingdom, lean in this direction. Countries that operate under civil law, including France, Germany, and Japan, tend to be in this camp.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, our analysis found that the net benefits to ranchers ranged from $18 million to $34 million (12% to 23% of revenues) in net present value projected over 10 years. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions. It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. The Refresher: Net Present Value.

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Only the CEO Can Make the Big Bets

Harvard Business Review

And using net-present-value estimates for "beginning" ideas is nuts. Incremental innovation can and should be pushed down into the operating levels of the organization. We say, "The Higher the Goal, the Higher the Role." Because they know they would get laughed out of the room if they were to advocate for a hunch.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

CFOs are more interested in capital investment estimates, net present values, and a clear outline of the trade-offs of any investment. Creating transparency into its operations is the starting point for marketing to help CFOs understand where and how value is being gained or lost, which makes budgeting discussions much more productive.

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