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July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Alice Snell presents Public Sector Hiring Reform posted at Taleo Blog – Talent Management Solutions. Art Petty presents Leadership Caffeine: Prepare Your Mind to Conquer Presentation Anxiety posted at Management Excellence. Grossman presents Valuing meaningful work always plays better to the bottom line.

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

This is what is going on now in community development. Recent studies of the efficiency and effectiveness rates of leading international NGOs and UN agencies have revealed the shortcomings of a system that, over the last half a century, has measured itself on process and not outcome.

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. When forced to present familiar metrics for truly out-of-the-box "beginning" ideas, work teams develop what our friend Jay Paap calls "Imaginary Numbers." So let's talk about incremental.

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Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The short-term investor does not reduce the firm's long-term competitiveness and value;short-term management does. A firm's long-term value should correspond to the present value of future expected cash flows.

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Rethinking Valuation So You Don't Miss a Good Deal

Harvard Business Review

Even Dell, famous for eschewing acquisitions in favor of organic growth, has thrown in the towel with its $5 billion acquisition of Perot Systems. To do this, we combine two separate frameworks: the first is the Three Horizon strategic model developed by McKinsey. We call this the Opportunity Value (OV) of an asset.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending. That system was efficient, but the new management team decided that, at this moment in its history, the company needed adaptability more than efficiency. reuse existing resources. Fostering coordination.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. You know, the future value of money, the present value of money — money today is worth more than in the future because you can invest it and get interest. You’re going to have to take a worst reasonable case. Absolutely.

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