Leadership Operations Porter Short-term 
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 8, 2016
They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects. But neither should they make capital-allocation decisions without regard to the long-term consequences for their own success.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Today, broadcast and cable television, print journalism, taxi cabs, and (over the longer term) oil and gas are among the industries facing formidable challengers determined to co-opt their purpose. Personal leadership is indispensable to operationalizing your purpose. Your purpose — preserving food — had been co-opted.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
And it's not a short-term problem, either. With such imprecision in the marketplace, companies must take it upon themselves to identify long term risks, quantifying the true value of water in order to steer clear of long-term hazards. Much of the leading work in understanding water risk has come from Coca-Cola.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 13, 2014
As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” And short-term numbers at that. Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 27, 2015
If policymakers hope to be successful in their efforts to promote entrepreneurs and small businesses, they need to know what works – in short, they need a “Playbook” for small business job creation. For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve.
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