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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

After all, your business’s future success depends not only on the health and longevity of the community in which you operate — but also on the health of our entire world. For this reason, margin is one of the best indicators of whether your organization operates according to its corporate purpose. greater revenue growth 34.7%

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

After all, your business’s future success depends not only on the health and longevity of the community in which you operate — but also on the health of our entire world. For this reason, margin is one of the best indicators of whether your organization operates according to its corporate purpose. higher operating profitability.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business Review

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. I recommend using it in developing a corporate performance scorecard. Should CEO performance be assessed only on “hard” measures?

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Don't Blame Your Company's Poor Performance on Its Industry

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, our study shows that the biggest variations in TSR are not between industries but within them. But the TSR variations of companies within these industries were far greater: 44 percentage points in tobacco and 69 percentage points in computers and peripherals. For them, industry was not destiny. So how do the winners do it?

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

This requires total transparency in the way individuals are assessed, developed, and promoted. Basil Vassilou, to head our operations in Europe; followed by a Cuban, Henri Martinez, heading our Latin American operations starting in 1988; an Indian American (myself) heading up Asia Pacific operations in 1993.

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