Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2019

Oracles, fortune tellers and soothsayers of all kinds have long claimed to be able to see the course of future events, and they’ve often found a receptive audience in humans who want desperately to know what’s just around the corner. The art of predicting the future is nearly as old as civilization itself. Diversify forecasting methods.

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Efficiency Disaggregation B2B Uncertainty 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

To hear long-term investors tell it, company executives have embraced short-term thinking like never before. Two obvious pieces of evidence: The use of earnings for share buybacks that cost more than they’re worth, and dividend increases that divert cash from long-term investment.

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Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

There seems to be a confusion about the meaning of the terms buying decision journey, buying path, buy-cycle, helping buyers buy, and buying decisions. You must: Assemble and get consensus from the appropriate people to determine if there is any agreement to making changes to your current site. Long meeting to get consensus.

CFO 50

CFO Consensus Budgeting Brand 50

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Spaulding describes relationships in terms of a five-floor building. PMs who build consensus and inspire team members develop a high ROI on their products and ROR with their colleagues. He cites as proof a 2007 Gallop Management Journal survey that estimates that “actively disengaged workers&# cost the U.S.

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Review Books ROI Loyalty 157

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The report identified the top four skills that have the greatest impact on leader preparedness and confidence in addressing VUCA challenges: introducing and managing change; building consensus and commitment; inspiring others toward a challenging future vision and leading across generations.

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Human Capital Conference Metrics Talent Management 103

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs. Thinking in terms of “ my way &# is right and therefore “ other ways &# are wrong is the basis for polarizing any relationship, which quickly results in converting discussions into power struggles.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. Another issue involves reallocating resources in the face of fundamental market shifts. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. government.

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Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

What’s going on there, it’s a term that’s been used for a really long time and you sort of opened the book with a discussion of that. Now it turns out maybe the power dynamic has shifted a little bit and the talented people really don’t want to be constrained in that. Why is that so important? ORLY: Yes, absolutely.

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. HBR: What got you interested in what impact short-term earnings management has on long-term performance?

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Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. The problem arises because different systems employ different definitions of key terms. An important issue arose and management asked the two departments to determine whether the company had been losing market share.

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Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

There have been as many as 16 prime ministers in Japan since 1990, while the average term of each prime minister has been just around one year. This instability meant that Japan was unable to iron out a national consensus on its reform plan, or implement reforms in the long run. Society hasn’t reached consensus on reform.

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Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

It would carry traumatic and long-lasting consequences. Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political activities. The very symbol of it — the euro — is under threat.

Crisis 15

Crisis Consensus Banking Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn. Before the announcement, the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio for Nigeria was 33%, compared to 270% for South Africa. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%. Global business'

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GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

A CEO we’ve worked with – let’s call him “Gary” – prides himself on being a collaborative leader who invests in consensus and builds relationships. ” Initially, team members may enjoy feeling included, heard, and valued, boosting morale in the short term.

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CEO Consensus Kaplan Morale 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

A few years ago, Jeff Spencer, then executive director of strategy for Merck Canada, created a long-term strategy for a culture of simplicity. Teams collaborated to create an e-mail-based, fast-response system by which representatives could provide marketing with customer feedback and other observations.

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Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The new government has met with the cautious approval of the EU, the IMF, the markets and the international press. And voters seem to understand that they face a long period of austerity, volatility, and a substantially lower standard of living. Finally it must honor its commitment to elections on February 19, 2012.

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Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. Schools can’t continue to deliver an expensive credential that is not seen as delivering a viable path to a career—no matter what the long-term value.

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Skills Education Long-term Career 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev: Investors' resentment, after the worst stock market decade in recent history, numerous accounting scandals and managerial pay abuses, is at all-time high and is very damaging. Doesn't the focus on them distract executives and investors from companies' long-term prospects? Your book argues that they're wrong.

Short-term 11

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. It tackles both long-term and short-term sustainability challenges. For years, Toyota has been the darling of the green business world.

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Strategy PPM Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against the future cash flows they expect will spring from it. Did it surprise him to find that there was so little consensus on the best way to solve the problem of assigning a cost to capital?

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CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. And while it has certainly burned many buyers of Amazon shares through the years — Amazon's stock price took a decade to get back to its 2009 peak — the long-run returns have been spectacular. In Morten T. Nice timing, huh?

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Once a team has reached, or appears to have reached, a consensus, it can be very hard for any individual to challenge the group’s interpretation of reality or predictions about the future — or to push back on what the group plans to do (or not do) — without running the risk of being perceived as a heretic or becoming a scapegoat.

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Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The congealing critical consensus is that Johnson's bold overhaul of the sagging American retailing icon went too far too fast. She's outlined a long-term recovery strategy but the congealing critical consensus is that she's simply not moving fast enough. Speed to market" isn't what's driving the change.

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Consensus Welch Retail CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2015

This blast of nostalgia, while great in the short term, illuminates a problematic phenomenon. What they’re often missing these days is a partnership with less prominent authors they cultivate over the long term, enabling them to be far more successful than they could on their own. Become a full partner with authors.

Short-term 8

Short-term Long-term Audience Brand 8

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 19, 2016

By Jeremiah Dillon , Head of Product Marketing, Google Apps for Work). Thursday: Energy begins to ebb — schedule meetings, especially when consensus is needed. Friday: Lowest energy level — do open-ended work, long-term planning and relationship building.

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Management Energy Consensus Brainstorming 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

This will shape agricultural markets in ways we have not seen before. There is strong academic consensus that climate change–driven water scarcity, rising global temperatures, and extreme weather will have severe long-term effects on crop yields.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It's inspired by the coming together of disparate disciplines including positive psychology, welfare economics, hedonomics, neuroscience, and marketing, For a long time there have been counter-intuitive signs leading Nobel prize winners like Amartya Sen, Jospeh Stigliz and Dan Kahneman, to question the meaning of prosperity.

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Company Kahneman Long-term Brand 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

When Baker Hughes and Halliburton were both downgraded by equity analysts following an Obama administration oil drilling ban in 2010, several of their long-serving directors decamped to take up seats at other firms. The second area is understanding how reputation influences the market for director talent.

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Reputation Media Consensus Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. If all of this sounds familiar, then it should because not too long ago Apple faced a similar situation after its launch of the iPhone 5. How then can a new front-runner better manage market expectations and also strive to be more innovative?

Brand 8

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Sitting at an annual event on a well-known Alp, Chris saw Washington Consensus capitalism come up against emerging economy pragmatism. vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6% Treasury, was describing the U.S.

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Disclosure: Jose is long GFNorte; the rest of us do not have GFNorte holdings.). Furthermore, the delivery of extraordinary short-term results provided credibility to the ABU, giving it legitimacy and encouraging other business lines to explore the analytics potential to deliver profits and overcome hurdles. The right people.

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Incentives Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The Y axis is a relatively straightforward measure of revenue, profit, market cap and ROI. Where a business falls along the spectrum of long-term societal impact depends on what it is doing to solve one of the world's biggest problems. The X axis is admittedly more subjective.

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Technology Entrepreneur Morale ROI 18

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

Or will they move from location to location, in search of better short-term deals? What do business leaders suggest to improve the long-term future of the American economy? Will business leaders reconnect with their communities and do their part to restore U.S. competitiveness? competitiveness in a survey last October.

Short-term 11

Short-term Survey Consensus Health Care 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

At the moment, there seems to be little consensus on just how the two differ and which differences matter most. And it will influence the long-term future of the U.S. And in the long run the West''s financial sector will be better off as a result. History shows that concentration of wealth to the 1% and the 0.1%

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