article thumbnail

What is Great Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Managers tend to govern over process, data, projects and products while leaders tend to utilize human capital to navigate these same areas and participate as part of the process. The focus of leaders is on utilizing people as a company’s most important product, to establish missions, strategies and goals for the organization.

article thumbnail

July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Alice Snell presents Public Sector Hiring Reform posted at Taleo Blog – Talent Management Solutions. Art Petty presents Leadership Caffeine: Prepare Your Mind to Conquer Presentation Anxiety posted at Management Excellence. Grossman presents Valuing meaningful work always plays better to the bottom line.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. 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.

article thumbnail

Why Some Digital Companies Should Delay Profitability for as Long as They Can

Harvard Business Review

When your product can become more valuable to your customers over time, the way you prioritize building features and harvesting profits within a business needs to change. The Refresher: Net Present Value. Invest today to build an ecosystem, demonstrate value, drive network effects, and create customer loyalty.

article thumbnail

Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource.

Report 8
article thumbnail

Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

When last year's massive earthquake hit Japan, the effect on electronics production was severe, and it also resulted in extended business disruptions for many in the automotive industry. Let's start by defining what we mean by risk, which is simply the possibility of more than one outcome (of unequal values) to a given future state.

article thumbnail

Don’t Let Your Company Get Trapped by Success

Harvard Business Review

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). 3M owes part of its innovative success to the “new product vitality index.”)