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Why Mentoring Matters

Mills Scofield

Hello Deb, The EP [Entrepreneur Program] leaders would like to thank you again for speaking to us at Ben and Jerry's. A personal goal is to give as many students as possible the opportunity catch, and learn from, the entrepreneurship bug. Joseph: " Dear Deb, Thank you for giving EP members an opportunity to hear you speak.

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U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

They modify their appearance, body language, and communication style — all components of executive presence (EP), that intangible element that defines leadership material. ” More than half (53%) of Latinas and 44% of Latinos say that EP at their company is defined by conforming to traditionally white, male standards.

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How Music Artists Use Strategy-Driven Tactics to Rise to Fame (And What Businesses Can Learn from It)

Strategy Driven

Dertee did this after his successful EP, “Defeating Gravity”. Businesses need to take this sort of perseverance to heart and lead forward with the goal of building a better tomorrow. Though his follow-up and first album, “Breaking Barriers”, did not see the same recognition, it did not stop him. Building Recognition.

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business Review

As earnings goals became harder to hit with internal growth, the company used most of its money for share buybacks to achieve its three-year earnings-per-share goals. Facing headwinds to growth, executives delayed R&D and capital investments to hit three-year free-cash-flow goals.

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You Can't Impress Stock Analysts.and Shouldn't Try

Harvard Business Review

Who declared 7 or 10 or 15 percent growth in earnings a sacrosanct pursuit, above all other corporate goals — like the innovation that leads to novel solutions that address customer needs? Nobody writes a paean to the search for 9 percent EPS growth. Moreover, pure growth targets are even wackier right now.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business Review

” The blueprint included the company’s purpose, vision, values, and strategic goals, and fits on a single page. Once in place, it both generates commitment of employees and customers and puts the short term and the quarter in context as the immediate building blocks to longer-term goals.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Crucially, he concludes that our unconscious mental frames “shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act, and what counts as a good or bad outcome of our actions.” , has shown how the way we frame such challenges shapes our reasoning and priorities much more than most of us recognize.

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