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Leadership Is About Alignment

Tanveer Naseer

There are as many definitions for leadership as there are companies that have leaders, yet at the core, leadership is about alignment. In fact, leaders leave companies when their personal values clash with the corporate values. When you do something that is against your values, you are out of internal alignment.

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Don’t Let Your Company Get Trapped by Success

Harvard Business Review

This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations. Our research shows that U.S. This is easier said than done.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

When multiple players compete for the same space, revenues indicate the progress towards achieving market leadership that creates the dominant protocol for industry partners, suppliers, and customers. (In In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams. Discovery-Driven Growth : A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity by Rita McGrath.