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Company Asset Management

Lead Change Blog

Also, they need long-term investment that is used to produce income. Computers, tools of the trade, vehicles, and buildings are the best examples of fixed assets. In a nutshell, a fixed asset is anything that a company buys intending to use for more than one year.

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Resolution 2011: Make Your Strategy Coherent

Harvard Business Review

Companies that demonstrate strategic coherence — think Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola — earn a market premium in terms of higher earnings and greater shareholder value. Leaders need to look past Wall Street-pleasing adjacencies or new businesses, and instead make sure their core strategy will result in long-term success.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. Who are these overachievers and how did we identify them?