Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Study Up – Make sure you take the time to study the details of your business or project plan for the year ahead. Put The Right Team On The Field - Take stock of your team and their strengths and weaknesses, and ask a few hard questions: Is everyone committed to the new year and the new plan? THEN , dive in. Happy New Year.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

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

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. It grows sales.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2012

However, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby , and other thoughtful commentators have noted that the intent to maximize shareholder value has resulted in myopic management overly obsessed with short-term financial returns. Short-term profits. Customer satisfaction.

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Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The team tasked with overseeing the effort designed an aggressive implementation plan that tied targets to manager compensation. However, beyond the strategic goal of becoming an industry leader in terms of cost structure, there was no “story” for how this effort would complement the business’s broader ambitions.

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Execution Strategy Decentralization Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Yet having the two teams work in perfect harmony and reach an easy consensus on every decision is a pipedream, and in fact, is not the best answer either. Marketers think in terms of aggregate customer segments; sellers think in terms of individual customers. Their plans look good on paper, but don’t work with real customers.”.

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Marketing Market Segmentation Short-term Merchandising 8

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 10, 2017

About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. The losses of U.S. Why is this Happening? Gains or losses on this program are not included in the exhibit).

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Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Sure, the value of an in-depth discovery phase; comprehensive, quantitative, and qualitative research; stakeholder interviews; scenario planning; and alignment are undisputed. And how often have you crafted a meticulous three-year strategic plan, only to have it become obsolete after a few months, or even weeks?

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Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 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. In speaking with the management team, we saw familiar signs of pain. And several weak players were holding back the already-strained management team.

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CEO Consensus Kaplan Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

There was a consensus that CSR focuses more on boosting employee morale than addressing the way a company engages with society’s concerns. One big problem is CSR departments lack the participation of big-spending commercial functions and the input of managers on the ground who better understand the local context.

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Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Evaluative terms like these serve as the bases for some consensus about what constitutes greatness. Corporate managers will always worry about results—and especially short-term results. Alternatively, leadership may be perceived as unpleasant, phony, inept, unfocused, and pedestrian.

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Short-term Wilde Consensus Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. Responding to change over following a plan. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Even if Trump himself stays ambivalent on some of these issues, Republican leaders have much clearer aims, including extensive plans to slash environmental protections. The short answer is no. In short, Trump cannot stop all momentum on the clean economy. Will the seismic shift in U.S. government. The Economics of Clean Tech.

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Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

“Collaboration” is a term that’s been in vogue recently, but the best Valley companies make it happen by investing in an environment that fosters collaboration. Managers act more as enablers and connectors, providing regular feedback and tracking progress. Give employees (and their dogs) a long leash.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies. This shift is undermining the liberal “Washington Consensus” that has guided policy making since the 1990s. Donald Trump won the U.S. In fact, this is already happening.

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Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In total, the evidence is compelling enough that companies planning or currently running their own programs may want to reconsider their commitment to these programs, or at a minimum, recalculate savings using the available calculator. We previously wrote a detailed critique of the report.).

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Health Care ROI Case Study Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

To investigate this question, I interviewed Roger Martin , the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada. Are we getting any closer to a consensus on it between the owners and the players? All of those things are right for the long-term. billion in revenue ain't worth a dime if there are $3.4

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Franchising Airlines Short-term Long-term 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. It's hard for us to gauge if this is an obvious point or not to people. One of the incidents that made it clear to us started way back in 1999. Treasury, was describing the U.S. fourth-quarter growth figure."

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Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

With a record $2 trillion in cash and short-term liquid assets on hand, U.S. There was little consensus about cost of capital practices; instead, respondents typically deployed a plurality of techniques. non-financial firms certainly seem poised to expand. What's holding them back?

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Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Crucially, there are areas where Democrats have to accept short-term losses, areas where Democrats have much more leverage than they think, and areas where the thing to do is fight. Most people think about power in terms of which side has deeper pockets, greater muscle, stronger allies, and more control over resources.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions.

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