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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest. All that corruption helped them hit quarterly EPS targets. He can tell you what’s moving in the right direction—and where we’re getting loose and need to tighten up operations. Team members FEEL local leaders are genuinely committed to our agile transformation.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. On the surface, this measure looks reasonable.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009.

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