Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The dangers of short-term thinking are well known. It leads to a chronic under-investment in projects with real long term value. It was commonly believed that short-term thinking was a major factor behind the financial crash of 2008. The parallels with the finance industry are stark.

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Short-term Long-term Banking GDP 69

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest. Galetti is the highest-ranking woman at Amazon and the only woman on the 18-person “S-Team” (short for “Senior Team”) that reports directly to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Affiliates.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

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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Blog Leadership Servant Leader Long-term 419

Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

When the term ‘It’s not about the money’ is used, the real issue is often about face.” It requires that we put ourselves in another person’s shoes, understand their frame of reference, take thoughtful actions to navigate potentially harmful situations, and build real trust and long-term relationships in life and business. Maya Hu-Chan.

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COO Self-aware How To Long-term 107

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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Blog Meyer Short-term Learning-by-Doing 420

Women on Business

MAY 10, 2012

Many businesses today that would have traditionally sought after bank financing are turning to other solutions. Can this money come from traditional financing? For example if you are expanding and need to purchase $300,000 in new equipment a bank would traditionally finance this type of purchase.

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Finance Document Follow-up Banking 180

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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Brand Brand Management Blog Media 365

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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CEO Blog Delegation Covey 324

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Even Streiff ended up concluding that it was the political nature of Airbus that prevented it from becoming an integrated company. In short, he became the unintended victim trapped by what the Financial Times called “byzantine organizational politics.” However, the reality is that politics is normal.

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Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

In the masculine model of success, power and prestige take precedence, compassion, and long term consequences are secondary. Related posts: The Positive Side of Workplace Politics Post by Jane K. He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail. Think about our world at this time. Governor’s Conference for Women.

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Press Release Discount PR Leadership 238

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Join us to hear expert speakers from across the realms of politics and business discuss compelling issues such as: Where do men fit into supporting inclusive workplaces? Reserved your spot? It’s less than two weeks to go until the highly anticipated CMI Women Conference on Tuesday 16 May. You can find all the info here. Catch up here.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

While the following may not be politically correct, I believe it nonetheless represents the truth - it also takes guts to be a leader. There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. I hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend as well.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 25, 2009

Employee Engagement & the Magic of Remembering → May 26, 2009 · 1:06 am ↓ Jump to Comments Office Politics – The Bad, The Ugly & The Good How often have you said something like, “ I hate office politics. Here goes: Bad Office politics = Self-promotion over the greater good Self promotion is not a bad thing.

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Politics Self-aware CEO Blog 41

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Long-term experience will either validate or invalidate first impressions.That said, it's the first impression that buys you the privilege of having the chance to be in the game to begin with. I believe that first impressions do matter but just in the short time. Thanks for highlighting that thought in your comment.

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Blog Gordon Brand Media 355

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

These include selfishness, possessiveness, emotional immaturity, short-term focus, and a lack of taking responsibility for their actions. Included in this list is our physical bodies and health, our finances, our relationships, and the world in which we live.  Take, for instance, the concept of stewardship. I could go on. 

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Letter Short-term Learning-by-Doing Finance 117

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. That's consensus.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 374

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. It's also important to very clearly define our terms when working in an organization for the reason MPFriedman describes above.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 385

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

For those in the public sector, this includes being shielded from governmental politics. These individuals can provide valuable political capital that enables a fund to take and defend decisions that may be politically controversial. Strong governance. Autonomy for pension institutions starts with a strong governance framework.

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Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

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. Here's the short version: "A person can't be best friends with 2,000 people. link] Allan W. link] Allan W. Best wishes Sir.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 365

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. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. The Downside of Best Practices by @mikemyatt [.]

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 313

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

According to a study conducted by the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, diversity in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity has proven to be beneficial for companies operating in the United States. Similarly, other companies may include board members who bring their expertise from areas like computer science and political science.

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Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 115

Chris Brady

JANUARY 2, 2011

" The term itself deserves the quotes thus employed in the previous sentence because it conjures in people's minds many different definitions. " and to push for political actions that would seek to "redistribute" it "more fairly. Others hear it and feel a compunction to cry, "It's not fair!"

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Rogers Short-term Blog Letter 124

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. In both places, we know the instability will worsen macroeconomic performance in the short term. Certainly the money at stake is substantial.

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13

Chris Brady

JANUARY 18, 2011

Everyone seems to have some sort of attachment to it, some philosophy about it, and some amount of understanding of the term. ' This is not a value judgment, as comparing something to 'bad,' but rather a term meant to describe the means to satisfy man's wants. ' But just what is this word all about?

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 119

Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

All these and more speak to the fact that communication is almost always best when aligned with the natural human tendency to think and learn in terms of stories. In short, what I needed for him to do was paint me the picture, not give me the dimensions of the frame. We remember what we see much better than what we merely hear.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 112

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. Unfortunately, engaging in the necessary sophisticated work across varying political cultures is not a natural act for many companies. The stakes are very high. A needed a pproach.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Trusts, however, were financed by consumer deposits, while the toxic asset of 2008 were securities contracts held by investment banks.). households are generally not directly at risk in short-term wholesale funding arrangements.” Cara Wick writes about American financial and political history at www.bankersnotes.com.

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Banking Crisis Morale System 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Yes, there are real reasons for MNCs to be concerned about political instability in Turkey and Ukraine, and economic policies in Argentina and China – all of which have occupied front pages recently. Meanwhile, in the Middle East the political crisis surrounding Prime Minister Erdogan made Turkey a target for currency traders.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2011

Most fail far short of the owners’ ambitions. It’s every businessperson’s nightmare: his or her company is failing, dysfunctional, stuck in neutral, and/or is disappointing overall, from the finances to the customer feedback. Warring camps develop, each seeking supremacy in what has become a political organization.

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Marketing Objective Short-term Discount 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

These countries have excellent research systems with a high number of influential scientific publications, relatively high levels of government and business R&D expenditure and venture capital financing, strong public-private collaborations, and a wealth of intellectual assets in patent applications and community trademarks.

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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

2, 2010 speech " Patience and Finance." In "Patience and Finance," Haldane examines the neurological roots of patience and impatience and looks at everyday cases where one or the other wins out. When long-term investors start in the ascendency, prices tend to correct towards fundamentals. The long is short," they write.

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Banking Long-term Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Greece is unquestionably in a catastrophic spiraling economic, social and political crisis. Most people rightly blame the highly polarized and corrupt culture of our politics for the mess. Unemployment has reached an historical record of 18.4%, 30% of whom are below 30 and continues to rise. Consumption continues to drop.

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Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Globalization need be seen not as an inexorable fact of life but rather as a challenge and an opportunity that must be carefully controlled politically. But nobody believes that about stock prices anymore, and so executives are back to balancing competing interests — this time short-term traders vs. long-term shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Along with explaining in clear if caustic terms how financial markets work, the book prefigures almost every criticism of the financial system that's been levied since the crisis of 2008. I also started thinking that, with a little updating, Wall Street would make for a great introductory finance textbook. It's brilliant.

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Books Short-term Long-term Finance 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. Without its own currency, Zimbabwe relies on USD for over 90% of transactions , but the collapse in exports means money is in short supply.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

He was constantly cautioning about short-term hires, and believed that you shouldn’t hire anyone whom you couldn’t keep and develop over the long haul. Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with.

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 343

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And while it’s true, as they write, that “large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies,” I know of no peer-reviewed evidence that the crisis was actually due to poor incentives, and their article cites none. Thus, while poorly designed incentives (e.g.

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