Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

More and more offices exist at the corner, situated in the messy confluences of cultures and technologies and in the borderlands of traditional disciplines. Every time I have assigned someone a task, rather than taking it on myself, the net effect – short-term, long-term, or both – is decidedly positive.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

In this article, we will explore why getting more women in leadership positions is a must, the pros and cons of leadership training for women and how businesses can strike a better balance for women’s leadership training in the long-term. Mentoring can happen in groups, one-on-one, across departments or over long or short periods of time.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2020

For your business to be a success, you need to make both short and long-term plans. You need to identify your goals and define objectives that will help you reach them, from the next few months through to the following years. Your goals will shape every business decision you make and give you direction. Failing to plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate. I wanted to put this question out there: Can humility be learned? Greenleaf in 1970.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. Professional development goals are an entirely separate category of aspirations and they need to be prioritized if you aim to succeed in them.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While you might not detect brand taints associated with overexposure in the short-term, this principle holds true across most genres over time. Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal. will go into decline.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. You can find all the info here. Catch up here.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

For your business to be a success, you need to make both short and long-term plans. You need to identify your goals and define objectives that will help you reach them, from the next few months through to the following years. Your goals will shape every business decision you make and give you direction. Failing to plan.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. I particularly liked: "Consensus isn't the goal. Good input is. Good input is."

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

Efficient allocation of resources, by definition, is the process of analysing all the available resources at any given point of time, and devising effective strategies to make the most out of them, keeping in mind short-term as well as long-term goals, in a way that there is minimal wastage and an optimal usage of all the resources.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. And what are your strategic goals? Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

AI is already transforming web search, advertising, e-commerce, finance, logistics, media, and more. The technical term for building this A→B software is supervised learning. But these systems still fall far short of science fiction. But lately the media has sometimes painted an unrealistic picture of the powers of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. So reducing investments in low-value care services means spending less on doctors, hospitals, and other health care technologies. rawpixel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

They greatly admire companies that come up with breakthrough ideas and talk about them in glowing terms, boosting their market valuation. They should be banging the drum for companies that make bold long-term investments, increasing their market value and spurring them on. That’s not good for companies’ long-term prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great. Of course, the task of a top manager is not a routine one.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Another problem we’ve seen is that some providers, seeking to fit in to a payment cycle, focus on short-term results, losing sight of the end goals. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. And if things are regrettably falling short, your boss is expecting some sort of early-warning heads-up. How do their jobs help the company meet its goals?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. The unit has fewer than 100 people divided among data science/analytics, technology, and social media.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Three people die every minute from tuberculosis — a treatable and largely preventable disease.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. in the 1970s and replace it with a simple, decisive credo: Do what benefits shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. That''s why it''s important that venture funds'' goals be aligned with corporate objectives, approvals for funding be streamlined, and compensation levels match those offered by independent venture groups. Finance Innovation' It''s like that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. That’s why it’s important that venture funds’ goals be aligned with corporate objectives, approvals for funding be streamlined, and compensation levels match those offered by independent venture groups. It’s like that.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. Because no one is managing the store. How did we get here?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

We believe that organizations need to explicitly develop two parallel management systems: the operational system that manages the short-term execution of work — what we call the "Surface System," and a second system that focuses externally on sensing and driving strategic change — what we call the "Deep System."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in. These sales organizations can better position themselves for long-term success by adapting their go-to-market approach to create multiple customer value sources. Your R&D group develops a unique new product. Manufacturing produces it. Some ways to do this include: 1.Multiplexing

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You either achieve your goals or you don't. But only athletic events produce clear winners and losers in the short-term — and most organizations are not actively engaged in those. Rather, we need to better understand how these numbers were achieved and what they are actually saying about a company's long-term health.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

But many don’t have one, instead adopting only defensive, short-term, or narrowly self-interested “government relations” tactics. Their business school education and their initial experience within narrower company functions ( e.g., marketing, manufacturing, finance) may leave them unprepared.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? People are welcoming technology investments, and people want to do great work that has a purpose. It’s great, thank you for having me. I’m excited to have the conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark. Think about it.

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