Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Great Leaders Have No Rules : Contrarian Leadership Principles to Transform Your Team and Business by Kevin Kruse (Rodale Books, 2019) Kevin Kruse debunks popular wisdom with ten contrarian principles for better, faster, easier leadership. Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2017

So, it’s essential for leadership teams to pinpoint and honestly assess these capabilities. Forecasting Capabilities: How well does the leadership team know the industry? What segment of the market do they serve? Can incentives be used to expand sales? By market segment? Can they anticipate shifts?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 27, 2023

The transformation happened when the demand for employees began to span continents and the job market was molded by technology, information and competition. Get a competitive edge by contacting us about our Situational Leadership ® training. appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. 80% of American workers live paycheck to paycheck.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. 80% of American workers live paycheck to paycheck.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

Scott expected nothing short of full cooperation from Susan and her team. She tells the team that they are among the best at NIH, that the initiative is extremely important and she knows that they will give nothing short of their full cooperation. NIH’s top leadership did neither. He would see her at kickoff later that day.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Perhaps two of the biggest barriers today to establishing and perpetuating an enduring corporate culture are: excessive CEO and executive compensation packages, reflective of greed and a short-term mindset; and. Michigan), is president of Eich Associated , a marketing and public relations consulting firm. Eich , Ph.D.

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HR Digest

APRIL 15, 2021

With the job market being highly competitive and good talent scarce, people are always looking out for skilled people, and the talent is also scouring the job listings for better deals. Most were open about scouring for better opportunities in the job market. Traditional days of employees retiring from one steady job are over.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society? It has become more important to “do things right&# rather than to “do the right things.&#

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 26, 2013

There’s been a lot discussion lately on the merits of telecommuting, in terms of fostering teamwork and innovation among disparate employees in an organization. To that end, it’s not about where people work or even when that should serve as the focus of our leadership and efforts to ensure our organization’s success.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 24, 2011

Last January, GlaxoSmithKline announced it was eliminating its individual sales goals as an incentive compensation measure for sales representatives. In short, reps’ bonuses aren’t based on individual sales any longer. GSK’s new bonus system is a little closer to, for lack of a better term, evidence-based motivation.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Ask your new hire to write a short biography, including information such as hobbies or pets. Reexamine your incentive and rewards program. Make sure to revise employee incentives that may encourage too much competition and create conflict. Unfortunately, neither are going to change in the near term.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2011

In short, trust is a form of social capital that enhances performance between individuals, within and among groups, and in larger collectives, like organizations, institutions and nations. Trust, like love and happiness , is difficult for people to explain in clear, rational terms.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Advocates of the FMLA believe that employers don’t have an incentive to create fair workplace standards. In a market scenario where competition is intense, this could help organizations gain a competitive advantage as the existing talent pool is able to meet future demands. Use Temporary Staff More Effectively.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2013

Personal pride should give you the incentive to be at your best, respond at your best, and serve at your best at all times. And your attitude, combined with your personal pride, will determine your short-term and long-term fate. It’s not how you feel about the customer, it’s not how do you feel about the circumstance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. Over the course of the last few decades, multinationals have entered and left “frontier markets” like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, Myanmar, and others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2011

For several decades there has been an ongoing debate about how to get executives to focus on the long-term creation of value. Short-term holders of equity securities are simply expressing an opinion on the short-term price movement of the security. Supports a focus on long-term value creation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Incentives : motivate high levels of the right sales activity. focus more effort on specific market segments), tweaks to sales force size or structure (e.g. close a vacant territory in a low growth market) or small modifications to hiring profiles (e.g. Training and coaching : help salespeople develop the competencies they need.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev: Investors' resentment, after the worst stock market decade in recent history, numerous accounting scandals and managerial pay abuses, is at all-time high and is very damaging. Doesn't the focus on them distract executives and investors from companies' long-term prospects? Your book argues that they're wrong. Why's that?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Marketing designs the promotional campaign. A sales model that pays salespeople almost entirely on commission and gives them exclusive "ownership" of customers often works for a while for products in unsaturated markets. Your R&D group develops a unique new product. Manufacturing produces it. Your sales force is ready to execute. "We

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

CEO incentives have traditionally been evaluated against objective data — also labelled “hard.” ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Implement a short list of KPIs recognizing the cause-and-effect relationship between soft and hard measures.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Furthermore, these actions are taken seemingly without regard to the consequences for the community, the employees, the survival of the company as an institution, or the creation of long-term firm value. Investors favorably receive projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Second, he or she needs to understand how capital markets work. Critics imply that managing for shareholder value is all about maximizing the short-term stock price. Companies that manage for shareholder value, the thinking goes, do whatever it takes to engineer an ever-higher market price. Understanding Capital Markets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In my latest book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism can Learn from the NFL , I wrote about the negative impact of executive stock-based compensation on corporate short-termism. Eliminating stock-based compensation would help reduce the incentive for executive leadership to focus on the short term.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Capital markets is one explanation. Perhaps the root problem is leadership limitations. That's not to say that there haven't been success stories.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” And short-term numbers at that.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The stock market is short-term-oriented. Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. The market favorably receives projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Large, well-established companies in need of long-term growth often turn to M&A. In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. What needs to change?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

It has no central marketing, procurement, sales, HR, IT, or legal department. A long-term investment horizon improves operating performance. Reasons for this vary, although respondents referred to the financial strength of the company, independent operation, brand value, and Buffett’s long-term investment horizon.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Recently published reports on the slips and stumbles of two much-heralded companies provide a close look at some of the internal dynamics that can undermine optimal decision-making and effective execution — even within organizations that have a history of market-leading performance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

They are listed below, each with an example: Profit maximization (long-term): A bank offers accounts to students at a special interest rate to attract a segment of customers whose incomes will later increase. Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. MirageC/Getty Images. The S&P and the Dow indexes are up 18% and 19%, respectively.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To be clear, this tendency to focus on exploitation and not exploration may even be welcomed by some investors who value predictable short-term returns from reduced costs and investments, increasing dividends and share buybacks. Eventually the company is likely to be out of touch with changing market requirements. points p.a.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Is free-market magic finally bringing Amazon-style convenience, quality, and efficiency to health care? Aetna would incent its clients to use CVS services by exempting these from the normal deductibles and copays that most insurers charge, thus incidentally, increasing CVS’s business more generally. Could this be it?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership—an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight. That’s not to say leadership isn’t important.

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