Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Five tips for hiring (and holding on to) young people via Management Today @MT_editorial. Smart use of technology can aid organisational change via @MediaplanetUK with ‏@profhamel. The Impoverishment of Attention by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet. Five Culture Killers in Your Organization by @GrowingLeaders. by @ericaarielfox.

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EPS Groupthink Gordon Learning-by-Doing 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. Incentivizing managers for growth routinely leads to expansion through overvalued acquisitions.

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EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

This is a classic story of unintended consequences — inadvertently short-circuiting long-term management — to the detriment of companies, investors, and the economy. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Moving up in an organization depends on looking and acting like a leader, on being perceived as having “executive presence” (EP). According to research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), EP constitutes 26% of what senior leaders say it takes to get to the next promotion. Diversity Managing yourself'

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EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We're moving towards innovation in technology, pricing, business models and partnerships," explains head of corporate responsibility management, Dorje Mundle, of the company's base-of-the-pyramid operations. Zeitz is also rolling out the EP&L across the holding group PPR.

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EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote. .”

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Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8