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Does The Age Of A Board Affect Company Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Innovation involves trying out new things, making improvements, and seeing what works in the market. Many CEOs, the top leaders of companies, often focus on short-term goals because that’s how they’re rewarded in their jobs. This can make it tough for company leaders to push for innovation.

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Are Digital Nomads Pricing Out Locals?

The Horizons Tracker

Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, the author has uncovered how the emergence of professional short-term-let landlords has contributed to the displacement of local residents from their homes. Priced out Lisbon is another example cited in the research where nomads are attracted by the good weather and lower living costs.

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Low-Carbon Policies May Harm Those Unable To Cope With Short-Term Costs

The Horizons Tracker

While there is growing public support for such measures, a new study from the University of Cambridge reminds us that the impact may be significant on poorer families and small businesses, who may be less able to cope with short-term cost increases. Similarly, energy taxes can have a significant impact on rural areas.

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Has Covid-19 Made Tourists More Price Sensitive?

The Horizons Tracker

New research from Queen Mary University of London highlights how tourists might be more price sensitive in the wake of the pandemic. The study found that tourists were more easily bothered by higher prices on offer alongside the lingering threat of infectious diseases.

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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2021

Leading Blog

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. The Long Game : How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark. Your personal goals need a long-term strategy.

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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

Lead Change Blog

In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business. The challenge for leaders in the West today has become the fixation on short-term results. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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Executives Tip More When Their Companies Do Well

The Horizons Tracker

This, admittedly short-term, boost in generosity, it also appears to be stronger among employees of firms that provide more stock-based compensation, which has an impact on how employees can impact the local economy. And is that being driven by the stock performance of their employer?”

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