Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

I’ve observed companies panicking and doing anything they can to manage short-term cash—and destroying hard-earned relationships at lightning speed. They are letting short-term financial objectives become the North Star in an effort to keep the lights on. If you don’t have a forever promise, you’re sunk.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Winning Now, Winning Later : How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David Cote. With competition intense and investors demanding strong quarterly gains now, leaders all too often feel obliged to sacrifice the investments so necessary for long-term growth.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

L ONG-TERM THINKING is the key to what goes on at Amazon. Jeff Bezos has said, “ What we’re really focused on is thinking long-term, putting the customer at the center of our universe and inventing. Those are the three big ideas to think long-term because a lot of invention doesn’t work. Don’t Commit to Scaling.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Fear is a fine short-term motivator but a poor long-term one. Paul Zak on how fear-based leadership undermines our goals and dumbs us down: “The science shows that fear-based management is a losing proposition because people acclimate to fear quickly.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2023

From trusting yourself to building trust with the other party, trust itself improves long-term outcomes, relationships, and buy-in. For a long time, experts couldn’t agree on how to define trust, let alone how to build it. As an attorney, I learned long ago to master the specialized lingo of my clients.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This approach will set the foundation for a healthy, long-term negotiating relationship. Too often, we focus on our immediate needs and what we want from a specific negotiation without considering the long-term impact. The short answer is that we all hold some responsibility, but we may not know it.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Decision-Making: How To Take The Long View from @JohnBaldoni. Hyperbolic Discounting and 7 Ways to Prevent Self-Sabotage by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr If we can figure out how to make the closest reward one that supports the long-term objective, we will succeed. by @artpetty. 3 Indicators of a Healthy Leader by @shawnlovejoy.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Venkataraman offers countless examples of how individuals and organizations have defied instant gratification and instead taken the long view. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’ It helps too to look past typical metrics to see what is actually happening long-term.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

T HE TERM “outward bound” was originally used to describe ships departing their home port for foreign destinations. Some outsourcing has been around for a long time. And contractors in the construction industry have long used an extensive form of outsourcing. Now it needs a third use, for organizations.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

What emerges is the long-term vision underpinning his success: that technology is ultimately about people and their potential. Fear and uncertainty have been undermining performance and well-being in the workplace for as long as we have had workplaces. It also undermines long-term business performance.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

The authors believe that companies and investors in every part of the world should take a look at Africa and its place in their long-term growth strategy because Africa is a 1.2-billion-person Building Resilience for the Long Term: A long-term view will be necessary to ride out short-term volatility.

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2023

Curated below are some notes from An Ordinary Man : ☙ “The strongest weapon in a political campaign is the good credited you by word of mouth”—this Ford credo goes a long way toward explaining him and the congressional mindset he personifies. JFK had long since taken the measure of his onetime House colleague.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

Much of what needed to be done at GE were long-term propositions. These are people who see what is next without losing sight of what is most important today; they see the long term while still delivering short-term results. And in 2001, the economic tailwinds that Welch enjoyed were about to shift.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

Think in the long-term. “Go Go long-term greedy.” To change a culture, you need to broadcast a strong, steady signal on each of these frequencies: Their Decisions and Actions. Example is everything—especially when it is inconvenient and costs you something. If it is truly a “value,” what are you willing to pay for it?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

There’s no long-term planning; there’s no strategic prioritization of issues.” Organizations are constantly dealing with urgent short-term problems. Think in terms of continuous improvement. Tunneling is a condition where you find that “when people are juggling a lot of problems, they give up trying to solve them all.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. But are these really our only choices?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2020

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.”. Source: The Only Way to Grow Huge.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

You can be optimistic that the long-term growth trajectory is up and to the right, but equally sure that the road between now and then is filled with landmines, and always will be. And in fact you know it will be filled with misery. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

However, treating the customer with love is the best way to boost the bottom line in the long run. Financial capitalism, on the other hand, is concerned with short-term results without regard for long-term consequences.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Confidence is about managing your self-doubt in order to do what you need to do to achieve your long-term goals. W E ALL POSSESS some confidence, but we all could use more of it. Confidence is a matter of mindset and belief and is reinforced by action. Will anyone believe in him or expect him to win?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

The long-term effect of that is that we “carry those biases forward to the next situation. “It means people can see wrong and feel wrong and act wrong in response, all the while believing they are seeing right, feeling right, and doing right.” Doing wrong can feel right. We deceive ourselves.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

We need reinforcement in terms of what we stand for, what matters, and what we prioritize, and through those things we can be where our feet are when it counts.”. #2 Live Your Leadership Constitution “Committing in writing to life and a way of living matters. 2 Change The Race. 7 Trust The Process.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I challenge you to place more emphasis on the long-term recurring challenge versus the next right move.” Life presents us with reoccurring patterns. Today’s chaos is a new version of what you’ve already been through. The key to working with chaos is your perspective.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

Why Leaders Need a Long-Term View by @HarryKraemerJr via @stratandbiz. How to Use Personality Tests in the Workplace: 9 Rules of Thumb via @DDIworld. Winning the Inner Game of Leading With Positive Self-Talk by @artpetty. Boss’s Tip of the Week: People Are People from @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

MAY 14, 2020

Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgment. If you are not falling down occasionally, you are just coasting.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It leads to short-term thinking. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. While fear can drive short-term results, it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. It also undermines long-term business performance. And that feeds our approach in society at large.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In terms of the workplace, Eades defines love as contributing to someone’s long-term success, and well-being and discipline as promoting standards in order for an individual to chose to be at his or her best. To that end he presents 8 practical principles you can use to elevate others.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

That meeting went way too long.”. What does too long mean? For example, instead of saying, “That meeting went way too long,” you can say “The meeting ended 20 minutes past schedule. In terms of concerns, you may be concerned that the team is throwing good money after bad. This is harder than it sounds. Is that accurate?”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Start-ups: The Founding Team Is a Real Magic Bullet via @INSEADKnowledge Studies show that the entrepreneurial team may impact a start-up’s long-term success more than its product. Unknowing Leadership by Steve Keating @LeadToday. These 7 Moderating People Skills Reduce Fear & Keep Us Balanced People Skills by @KateNasser.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2019

Yet the cost of poor hiring is considerable, not just in terms of hiring unsuitable candidates (time, money, reputation, impact on colleagues) but also in terms of the damage poor hiring processes can have on your organization. but also your hiring decisions, quality of candidates taken on in both the short and longer term.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Making these types of connections helps you take the data one step further, determining if it’s going to have a short-term or long-term impact, if it’s suggesting the end of a trend or the beginning of a new one.” It is a mistake to allocate and measure time only in economic terms or numeric ways. Give it context.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

This also means creating the capability — typically through a Process Center of Excellence (COE) — to build and maintain this information for long-term value.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Short-termism versus Long-termism. We have a great ability to think long term but we are biased to act short term. Character is a long-term investment. “Purpose and vision should be grounded in a set of enduring and relatable values, or immutable truths, that can guide us through dilemmas and difficulties.”.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

As long as one remains thus paralyzed, it’s difficult to make progress dealing with one thing at a time. Jared Diamond on dealing with a crisis: “Typically when one is first plunged into a state of crisis, one feels overwhelmed by the sense that everything in one’s life has gone wrong.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Scaling is akin to running a long race where you don’t know the right path, often what seems like the right path turns out to be the wrong one, and you don’t know how long the race will last, where or how it will end, or where the finish line is located….[And Link Short-Term Realities to Long-Term Dreams.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The lenses highlight the impact on many constituents, in the short term, and over generations, giving leaders a holistic ethical picture. The higher levels of ethical thinking, though, require a much longer-term perspective and a global worldview. 7 Lenses™ of Ethical Responsibility.

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