Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. Influencing skills. Collaborative decision making and problem solving.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x We chase short-term wins. They go after short-term wins and cannot lift their heads high enough to glimpse the future. Ultra-runners push boundaries by running extreme distances, sometimes as long as thirty, fifty, or one hundred miles or more. We keep our focus narrow.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 265

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

A 2014 global survey of more than 600 C-suite executives and directors, conducted by the non-profit Focusing Capital for the Long Term (FCLT), reported that two-thirds of those surveyed said pressure for short-term results had increased over the previous five years. And short-term thinking since that survey has not abated.

CEO 8

CEO Short-term Long-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

I and others believe that the recession may have precipitated or accelerated certain long-term changes in employment patterns that will mean slower job creation, lower total returns to labor, higher skill requirements, and issues with income inequality. million, were the largest in U.S. manufacturing output.

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Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Short-term adaptability and rapid response strengthen long-term planning. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. We think clearly and adapt quickly to customer/market needs (aka reality). We adapt quickly and effectively to changes in the market.

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Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But if the purpose of the company is its long-term survival, then one could make the argument that he was a failure as CEO, as he optimized short-term gains by squandering long-term opportunities. Great short-term gains but long-term prospects that are far less compelling. The result?

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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

Of course, the National Bureau of Economic Research classified two (2001 and 2008) of those 10 years as recession years. We found that family businesses handily outperformed non-family companies during both the 2001 and 2008 recessions in terms of a key metric, Tobin’s q. Leadership Marketing'

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First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets Sample Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

But everyone else was making similar loans and as long as they could be off-loaded through securitization, the company could continue to make money and was under pressure to do what all the other major banks were doing. If the analyst didn't like the fact that this might constrain profits in the short term, he could sell the stock.

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CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

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Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Actual retailers, though, have tended to stick with simpler techniques, such as simply looking at how long it has been since a customer last bought anything, and picking a cutoff period (nine months, say) after which that customer is considered inactive. This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics.

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Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Then it wasn’t.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. Who are these overachievers and how did we identify them?

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In addition to signaling a strong economy, a tight labor market typically improves job prospects for groups with fewer skills and less experience, including teens. Even more worrisome has been the decline, since 2001, in the share of teens participating in the labor force. Here is what we’ve found: Short-term program impacts.

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Short-term Participative Long-term Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Penney’s recent announcement that it is resurrecting its print catalog reflects a trend of retailers returning to the print medium as an important sales and marketing tool. According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), catalog mailings grew in 2013 to 11.9

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Retail Brand Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Recently published reports on the slips and stumbles of two much-heralded companies provide a close look at some of the internal dynamics that can undermine optimal decision-making and effective execution — even within organizations that have a history of market-leading performance.

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Long-term Short-term Engineering Price 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

” In 2001 Schillinger landed a position in France at the vaccine maker. She decided to leave her organization and founded Lightspan Digital, a digital marketing company based in Chicago that specializes in social media, email, and content marketing. “I will not fall into complacency.

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Career Short-term Human Resources Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Actual retailers, though, have tended to stick with simpler techniques, such as simply looking at how long it has been since a customer last bought anything, and picking a cutoff period (nine months, say) after which that customer is considered inactive. This resistance to state-of-the-art statistical models has frustrated the academics.

Simon 8

Simon Retail Uncertainty Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on? Where will this period of discovery take the company?

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

Just as the Great Recession sent investors retreating to value positions in the stock market, it also heightened questions for anyone investing in higher education. The value of a higher degree can seem even more dubious when the timing of it lands a graduating student directly into a tight labor market.

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Survey Education Marketing Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

And as you can see in the chart below, the long-term trend in the percentage of workers who are self-employed actually appears to be downward: But isn’t this the age of Free Agent Nation , as Dan Pink declared back in 1997 ? Other long-established varieties of independent work have been declining, or at least not growing much.

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MBO Survey Human Resources Long-term 9

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

When global marketing firm McCann Worldgroup surveyed 1,000 individuals in the U.S. between the ages of 16-30 years old in 2001, it found more than 90 percent of those surveyed rated “connection and community” as their greatest need. Connection in the Workplace. CNO Admiral Vern Clark, the former chief of the Navy did this.

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Stress Mentor Competitive Advantage Long-term 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. That's almost 14 years as CEO — a long time, considering that the average CEO tenure for large U.S. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5 million, a 35.4%

CEO 13

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Furthermore, these actions are taken seemingly without regard to the consequences for the community, the employees, the survival of the company as an institution, or the creation of long-term firm value. Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development.

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Restructuring Long-term Short-term Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

This position also meant that governments were continually intervening in markets with price-setting and regulations, as well as with government ownership. One can also see his continual intervention in markets, from banking to retail, as motivated by the same belief that government knows best, and that markets are not to be trusted.

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Politics Price Simon Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. economy’s future prospects. The study’s core point is simple. Insight Center.

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GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6% Mahathir stood his ground, not just at Davos but in the financial markets, by refusing the IMF's aid, reducing Malaysia's interest rates, and restricting currency trading.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

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Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Barnholt calls it the tyranny of large numbers, explaining that "there's a natural tendency to think in terms of bigger bets as you get to be bigger.". They worked on numerous initiatives in large, growing markets that were adjacent to or somewhat related to HP's existing business. A billion dollars kind of became a mantra.".

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

And after that, when China and India’s spectacular growth in the first decade of the new millennium proved Rohwer right in spades, he wasn’t around to say I told you so because he’d died (in a sailing accident) in 2001. If only he were around to collect.

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Globalization GDP Long-term Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? There is perhaps one place where this paradigm still exists: the gym.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In a vacuum, a particular idea might work for a specific drug, but only if it focuses on isolated factors and ignores the long-term context of treatment, different types of treatment, and multiple (often subjective) aspects of value. But the problem is obvious: excessively high prices that defy market forces.

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Price Health Care Proposal Cost 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The squeeze on middle America will be long lasting. . a year between 2001 and 2007 and plunged by 26.2% This low-income consumer is part of a long-term P&G study tracking several consumers over time to gauge how sentiment is evolving as the economic slowdown wears on. in the following two years. Census Bureau. "We

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