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The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Leading Blog

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. It helps too to look past typical metrics to see what is actually happening long-term.

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The Risks Of Building Innovation Ecosystems

The Horizons Tracker

This was also reflected in wages, as while wages at high-end firms would often increase as a cluster developed, those at low-end firms would often fall. By contrast, the fortunes of non-tradable businesses declined across all three of these metrics. A common problem. Uneven fortunes.

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CMI Highlights – 9 August

Chartered Management Institute

If you want to learn more about your rights around flexible working, check out this refreshed guidance from Working Families , developed with the support of the Government’s Flexible Working Taskforce (which CMI’s policy and innovation manager, Hamish Shah , has been sitting on). Is our skills gap increasing inflation?

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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Not recognizing, developing, and rewarding talent is the fastest way I know of to drive talent out of your organization and directly into the hands of your competition. Tenure Inhibits Change and Cripples Innovation : Organizations that favor tenure also tend to be prone to majoring in the minors.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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Success vs. Significance | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read! Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service. Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal.

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The False Promise of the Single Metric

Harvard Business Review

Unprofitable, but still promising, product lines were cut, timber stocks were reduced to a bare minimum, employee numbers were razored, and long-term development activities were curtailed. Instead, he focused his metrics on the long-term needs of a full range of stakeholders , as Unilever’s annual reports demonstrate.