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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

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In fact, long-term business viability depends on it. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR) 7.7% The hike is long, tiring, and full of obstacles. greater revenue growth 34.7%

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

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In fact, long-term business viability depends on it. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. greater annualized total shareholder return (TSR). The hike is long, tiring, and full of obstacles. Too often, the focus turns to profit.

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CEOs Must Model the Behavior for Creating Societal Value

Harvard Business Review

CEOs can use both signals and systems as powerful levers in tilting the focus of their company toward long-term societal value creation — which will take care of their shareholders perfectly well. He changed "Market Total Shareholder Return" (M-TSR)" to "Operating Total Shareholder Return (O-TSR)."

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business Review

” In 2012 the Commonwealth Bank restructured its evaluation system so that 75% of CEO incentives came from the bank’s total shareholder return (TSR), relative to a set peer group, and 25% from customer-satisfaction results, benchmarked against another peer group. ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective. .”

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Designing CEO Pay to Drive "Good" Behavior

Harvard Business Review

companies receive more than half of their annual pay value in long-term incentive — typically equity — compensation. In Europe, that long-term incentive makes up roughly one-third of the pay. For long-term incentive plans, the dominant measure is total shareholder return (TSR).

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The Best Indian CEO List: Youth and Education Rank High

Harvard Business Review

The first-ever ranking of Indian CEOs based on the long-term shareholder returns they generate (available here and published in Business Today , an Indian business magazine) provides an interesting answer. Who are the best-performing CEOs in India? The young professionals.

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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team

Harvard Business Review

Ironically, my story is a story of overcoming my own biases about diversity—and then using these hard-won insights to build one of the most diverse leadership teams and board of directors in the world. Recognize that a diverse leadership team delivers superior long-term performance.

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