Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

HBR: Why We Keep Hiring Narcissistic CEOs. Smart use of technology can aid organisational change via @MediaplanetUK with ‏@profhamel. The Key Traits that Separate CEOs from other Senior Executives via @ChiefExecGrp Chief Executive magazine. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet.

EPS 150

EPS Groupthink Gordon Learning-by-Doing 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Moving up in an organization depends on looking and acting like a leader, on being perceived as having “executive presence” (EP). According to research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), EP constitutes 26% of what senior leaders say it takes to get to the next promotion.

EPS 8

EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The oft-cited CEO of Unilever, Paul Polman, announced the company's Sustainable Living Plan , saying to investors: "if you don't buy into [our long-term value model], I respect you as a human being, but don't put your money in our company.". Zeitz is also rolling out the EP&L across the holding group PPR. Breakthrough Institutions.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

The normal culprits for short-termism are short-term-minded hedge-fund managers and activist shareholders, as well as CEOs worried about big bet investments with uncertain paybacks. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2002 to 7.2

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Challenges of this frame: It is tempting to imagine that such technology will solve all our resource problems, but shoehorning billions of extra people onto the planet must have consequences.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Therefore, rather than using corporate cash to boost Apple’s earnings per share (EPS) immediately, executives should be willing to wait for the stock-based incentives to generate higher earnings through innovation. In doing so, CEOs could recognize how much their companies have gained from social investments made in the past.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10