Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. But commitment guides bravery more than an inherent belief in self-ability! It forces you to edit and target with accuracy. Don’t be timid.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

On January 25, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants held a press conference to call attention to a new framework for integrated reporting (reporting sustainability information alongside financial information in companies' filings). Our school and the exchange will work together to help make that happen in China.".

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Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

They were about signaling a credible commitment to Tesla’s purpose: to become a clean energy giant that helps address climate change by transforming mobility. Musk knows that one of Tesla’s biggest competitive advantages is the patience and long-term thinking not only of management but also of its investors.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Then he had to believe that not only was it important enough to try, but also — through a series of trials and errors — actually possible to sustain over the long-term. I shouldn’t even be at this conference,” Hickox said. This was also true for Michelle Hickox. ” Making a Plan to Put Family First.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

My experience with Target should bolster anyone's case that you can be a committed A-player executive, a good parent, an attentive spouse, a healthy person with time for hobbies — yes, hobbies! In the long-term, for Target this means that I'm a more engaged leader without an unmanageable tension between my wife and my work.".

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P&L Long-term Learning-by-Doing Team 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

It’s also a reminder that leadership, ultimately, is a spiritual practice (whether or not one chooses to put it in religious terms). After having two of my companies colapse around me within a ten year period, I spent a long long time wallowing in it…blaming everything but myself for my circumstances.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

His horizon was exceedingly long-term. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. A natural reaction would have been to obey the short-term signals and retrench and, indeed, that’s what most of our competitors did, dismissing up to 50% of their staffs. But we barely downsized.

Management 8

Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

To the firm, I was the “ ideal worker ” — a phrase sociologists use to describe a problematic archetype of a fully committed employee with no personal “entanglements.” As an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the 90s, work came before everything else. It was just the industry and firm norm.

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Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 10

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Knowledge of leadership theories and skills may be formally gained by enrolling in leadership seminars, workshops, and conferences. Life-long learning is important in becoming a good leader for each day brings new experiences that put your knowledge, skills, and attitude to a test. Thanks for this guiding article.

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Blog Leadership Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 406

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I’ve come a long way since then.”. Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

We respected its commitment to organic food, we chuckled at its hippie sensibilities, but we marveled at its business principles. I met Jeff Bezos at one of the first e-commerce conferences ever organized, sat by him at lunch, and within minutes knew I had to hit the “record” button on my cassette recorder. (I

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