Rich Gee Group

JUNE 10, 2024

In business, the adage "penny wise and pound foolish" often describes a short-sighted approach to cost management that undermines long-term success. This reluctance stifles innovation and prevents the workforce from acquiring new skills essential for adapting to market changes.

Short-term 195

Short-term Long-term Decentralization Incentives 195

N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Making plans flexible means that organizational developments and career plans have to be adjusted more frequently than we were used to. Both leaders and employees have to learn to anticipate market and political trends more quickly and adapt to them. We should continue to make plans, provided we make our plans as flexible as possible.

Decentralization 150

Decentralization Trends Career Network Organization 150

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Perhaps if today’s business leaders took a page from history, their companies would achieve the success created by the enlightened leadership of past corporate giants. And that would be a good thing. * * *. Eich , Ph.D.

Decentralization 284

Decentralization Organizational Behavior Short-term Public Relations 284

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. Schools can’t continue to deliver an expensive credential that is not seen as delivering a viable path to a career—no matter what the long-term value.

Skills 9

Skills Education Long-term Career 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

“There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Business leaders, along with the companies they lead, will need to take an active stance, shaping the conditions for future success, rather than merely reacting to twists in the plot. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8