Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. He made certain the Navy’s plans and budgets were aligned with his priorities.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

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.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

We rarely see the harm in adding new functionality to a website, a new option to a service plan, or a new series of internal meetings. A few years ago, Jeff Spencer, then executive director of strategy for Merck Canada, created a long-term strategy for a culture of simplicity.

Short-term 260

Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

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.”.

Marketing 9

Marketing Market Segmentation Short-term Merchandising 9

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.

CEO 8

CEO Consensus Kaplan Morale 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.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Team Consensus Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Create a 150-day plan. AGI has found that an effective way to force tough tradeoff decisions is to focus on an urgent and defined timeline—one that is long enough to get something meaningful done but short enough to demand disciplined attention. The AGI team focused Johnson-Sirleaf’s Cabinet on developing a 150-day plan.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy GDP Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

It tackles both long-term and short-term sustainability challenges. Given those science-based plans, Ford is investing in the long-term — the sexy, new EV market that everyone is going after — and rolling out a series of efficiency technologies in the existing, combustion-engine fleet.

Strategy 15

Strategy PPM Long-term Short-term 15

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

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. This means CSR initiatives tend to be short-lived, dependent as they are on the whims of senior executives rather than the value they deliver. Engage radically.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Termed the Michelangelo phenomenon , a skilled and thoughtful relationship partner becomes committed to first understanding and then reinforcing or drawing out another’s ideal form. Very quickly, the committee reached consensus on a selectee. We all fall prey to assumptions. Even well-intended assumptions can backfire.

Mentor 10

Mentor Committee Self-aware Career 10

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.).

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI Case Study Morale 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. Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Remember just a decade ago when the term "inner city" basically meant "dead city," conjuring up images of destruction, dereliction and despair? We'll give architects and developers the challenge to experiment with new designs, new floor plans, and new materials. Best processes are more important than best practices. Experiment.

Innovation 14

Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 14

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."

Banking 11

Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

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.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Are we getting any closer to a consensus on it between the owners and the players? The really great franchises will make a bunch of money; the crummy franchises will lose money; and they'll have rich owners who can absorb that and who have plans and hopes and dreams that someday they can make money. billion in costs.

Franchising 8

Franchising Airlines Short-term Long-term 8

Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2015

Succession planning, done well, creates brilliant competitive advantage. Poorly executed, at best it’s a waste of time, and often creates serious havoc on long term performance. If you complete your 9 box succession planning grid and it’s all balding white guys with a dry sense of humor in box 9 you clearly have a problem.

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Planning Succession Diversity Competitive Advantage 180

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. Environmental impact.

Christensen 13

Christensen Company Consensus Gilbert 13

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?

Agility 8

Agility Strategy Short-term Long-term 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).

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

After exploration, there are lots of ways to plan, but at the very least a good plan details the target customer, crucial stakeholders, the essence of the idea, key economics, the commercialization path, proposed operations, the team, financial requirements, and the action plan. Is the testing plan well thought out?

Company 14

Company Net Present Value How To Proposal 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

There is strong bipartisan consensus that our current level of health care spending does not deliver sufficient value in terms of individual or population health. For example, when cost sharing was increased for office visits in Medicare Advantage plans , patients visited their physicians less often, as expected.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Insurance Short-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.

Short-term 16

Short-term Wilde Consensus Long-term 16

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. Artificial constraints, such as formal organizational hierarchies and belabored consensus-building processes, create waste and dampen motivation.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. Sociologists use the term density to describe this property of networks: it quantifies the percentage of people who know each other in a network. That’s how groups become mired in consensus, and after a while, everyone thinks and acts alike.

How To 8

How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 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). Weidert Group Weidert Group’s planning process is deep and rigorous, focused on learning the perspective of our client's customers. And plan in social media ad budgets from the beginning! It grows sales.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

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?

Cost of Capital 12

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12

Women on Business

MARCH 4, 2011

To many Congressional leaders, especially Republicans, the budget falls short of taking the necessary and serious deficit reduction measures. The scary question is whether Congress can come to a consensus on the budget–in the short-term as well as for 2012–or whether we are headed for a government shut-down in a few days.

GDP 150

GDP Budgeting Proposal Short-term 150

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.

Execution 12

Execution Strategy Decentralization Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

had made, like the Clean Power Plan and vehicle emissions standards , citing them as an impediment to business. More than 365 companies and investors voiced their support for the US Clean Power Plan in 2015. Ultimately, long-term legitimacy, reputation, and license to operate are at stake.

Globalization 9

Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 9

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2012

The Democratic style is all about gaining buy-in and building team consensus. Let’s explore a situation where all great managers deploy the Democratic style; Planning. Second, when you plan democratically, people feel their voice has been heard and they “own” the plan. That’s no time for consensus building, is it?

Leadership Styles 244

Leadership Styles Project Management Succession 244

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Responding to change over following a plan. It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.” ” When it comes to “responding to change over following a plan,” this often gets misinterpreted to mean “don’t have a plan.”

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

This shift is undermining the liberal “Washington Consensus” that has guided policy making since the 1990s. While still merely the president-elect, Donald Trump pressured several firms to give up plans to move jobs outside the U.S. Donald Trump won the U.S. In fact, this is already happening.

Politics 9

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 9

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Bottom-up Short-term Globalization 8

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