The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Short-termism is seldom regarded as a positive attribute for managers to adopt, especially at a time of disruption and change. Alas, research from the Cornell Business School suggests that American firms, and indeed investors and policymakers, are actually becoming more and more short-term oriented. Discounted returns.

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Short-term Discount Long-term Analysis 65

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To be recognized on the 2020 Top CHRO List, the words leadership, team, succession, purpose, culture, governance, and diversity are not just buzzwords – they represent who a CHRO is, what they believe, and where they work every day. and a development manager at Oracle Corp. “What makes a great CHRO, great?

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. Sam Walsh: The Rio Tinto business, in relative terms, is the strongest of the Mining Houses.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

In the 2013 Top 10 Premier league players, only 2 (Wayne Rooney and Daniel Sturridge) are English, the others are from Uruguay (Luis Suarez), Holland (Robin van Persie), Germany (Mesut Ozil), the Ivory Coast (Yaya Toure), Belgium (Vincent Kompany), Argentina (Sergio Aguer0), Spain (Juan Mata), and Denmark (Christian Eriksen).

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Execution Development Welch Globalization 298

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 1, 2013

Here’s to an even tougher competition in 2013! The Top 10 Twitter Accounts for Servant Leadership. Here they are, The top 10 Twitter accounts for Servant Leadership followers in 2012: 10. James has many books on Leadership that continue to be a great foundation for insights. James Strock ( @jamesstrock ).

Greenleaf 221

Greenleaf Leadership Blanchard Competitive Advantage 221

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

That may be true in terms of the process that you have to work within. It’s not true, however, in terms of how you can use the annual review process to set you and your team up for success. There are short-term and long-term effects of performance conversations on engagement and commitment.

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Performance Review Review Process How To 149

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. As a manager “on loan” to Abbott from the University of Michigan, I quickly found similarities between the two organizations. They can pose major challenges for today’s managers, especially if those managers are part of a different generation.

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Decentralization Organizational Behavior Short-term Public Relations 284

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Like the words Think Different, People-Products-Profits is part management philosophy, part rallying cry, and in an aspirational context, part religion. When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea. Likewise, leadership is a choice.

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Productivity Products Succession Team 150

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2014

The classic mistake made in leadership development, coaching, and self-help books is the promise that “This will make you better!” We all confuse two terms that appear to be synonymous but are actually quite different: simple and easy. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Short-term Long-term Crisis Goal 137

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

“Riverside already had good customer service but Tim wanted to create an even higher level of customer service, what we termed Premier Customer Service,” Chart Your Course International’s Smith says. Most companies miss the boat when trying to do something like this because they only want to conduct a couple of short training sessions.

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White Paper Case Study Human Resources Hotels 100

Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 28, 2013

January 28, 2013. Or it could be a group of high potential employees being groomed for additional leadership responsibilities down the road. A good rule of thumb is to match mentees with mentors who are 1-2 steps ahead of them in terms of career level, competency, certification, etc. Leadership Profile: Dale.

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Mentor How To Human Resources Objective 186

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

At the current rate of change, it will take until the year 2085 for women to reach parity with men in leadership roles in our country.” Their presence in top management positions today remains below 9 percent. The development of talent within an organization is critical to long-term competitiveness. It’s a painful revelation. “At

Diversity 66

Diversity Competitive Advantage Participative Committee 66

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. I can''t put into words my respect, admiration and thankfulness for Matt, his leadership, elegance, eloquence, professionalism and humility. Terms like “Thank you for your service!”

Emotional Intelligence 150

Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. New managers often carry a naive belief that the personal issues of employees are irrelevant to their performance on the job and something that can be ignored. But that would be in a perfect world.

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Efficiency Short-term Long-term Stress 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Focus obsessively on the short run. Define long term ‘something we can focus on once the basics are in place.’ Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Never take the blame.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. It is as plain as day that women are equally qualified to lead in terms of skill and talent, yet we capture far fewer job slots at the top.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

‘Tis the season for futurists, forecasters, and analysts to line up with seers, fortune tellers, and prophets to earnestly foretell what 2013 has in store for us. Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses the right question in his blog Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

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Heskett Collins Uncertainty Short-term 45

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

My business would be to advise SME on how to be sustainable in the long term applying quality principles right from the very beginning. The result is that only a small portion of startups survive in the long term. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2013

And your attitude, combined with your personal pride, will determine your short-term and long-term fate. There are too many possible issues to deal with in this short piece, but I do want to acknowledge it’s not always work related. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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How To Short-term Customer Loyalty Training 50

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Your new “you” may get you some short-term benefit, from a team that is now jumping through hoops out of fear instead of true inspiration, but in the longer run you’re headed for bigger troubles. Happy New Year, and Lead Well in 2013! You just weren’t…hard enough. Photo by Bigstock ).

Leadership 342

Leadership Short-term Budgeting Morale 342

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.).

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

However, under-investing in marketing is short-sighted, and this article will explain how “smart marketing” can be a key driver of business growth. In short, it works. Seek to send out a press release once a month (as a long term goal). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

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Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. LARRY: Sure.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. During the past two decades it has transformed into a provider of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power management solutions. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

Company 10

Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The following highly condensed fictional case study draws on their paper “Anatomy of a Decision Trap in Complex New Product Development Projects” in Academy of Management Journal. Commentaries by project manager Roger Thomas and researcher Kim van Oorschot provide frameworks for understanding the team’s decisions. What went wrong?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise. million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Another big factor is the lack of women in high-paying leadership roles: Only 4% of S&P 500 CEOs are women, according to Catalyst. employees who successfully completed our survey between July 2013 and July 2015. employees who successfully completed our survey between July 2013 and July 2015. engineering, computer science).

Short-term 8

Short-term Mentor Training Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges a company can face is changing people’s behavior — getting them to collaborate and be humble, for example, or put the company’s long-term interests first. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. But we knew all this was just a starting point.

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Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. Not surprisingly, the particular aspects of managing human capital that are most important vary by sector.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Each state poses a different leadership challenge.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya. We asked them how many companies in Africa make over $100 million annually.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8