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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. They believe that they can always raise financial capital to meet their funding shortfall or use company stock or options to pay for acquisitions and employee wages.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

By developing very different capabilities than Xerox's, Canon created a new recipe for success, and in the process short-circuited Xerox's ability to retaliate quickly. Many of these children become CEOs, but the same people sometimes blame the need to deliver short-term results for their inability to think in the longer term.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Mark Timm, CEO of Ziglar Family. Michael Levitt, CEO of BreakfastLeadership.com. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. Tom Ziglar, Ziglar Inc.

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Leaders Can Be Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely

Terry Starbucker

He liked hiring young accountants (I happened to be a CPA at a large firm at the time) because of their bottom-line savvy and buttoned-down approach to looking at a business. People that could match his style of leadership: autocratic and one-way, with a large helping of fear. Cheers and Regards!

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. According to Noah Kagan, the CEO of SUMO , Sujan is half-mad scientist and half content master.

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Who Rules the Web Now?

Harvard Business Review

Instead, each possesses a wealth of user information to target ads to individual consumers on a cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-action (CPA) basis. Next time you're heading into a strategy meeting to develop your five-year plan, we think you may want to keep the dynamics above in mind.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

We have developed a framework to help boards make decisions concerning corporate political spending — decisions that are informed; consistent with company strategies, policies, and values; and that mitigate risks as much as possible. .” ” Question Two: Should We Disclose that Spending?