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What is Great Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Ted Bagley: All organizations worry about leadership, from the mom and pop community businesses to the giant global entities both domestic and international. Good leadership is defined as proper training, rewarding, assisting, coaching and respecting those who “carry the load”.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

When multiple players compete for the same space, revenues indicate the progress towards achieving market leadership that creates the dominant protocol for industry partners, suppliers, and customers. (In In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

Incremental innovations can be managed at the operating levels where the people know the customers/consumers best and decisions can be made in a more consensus-driven way with input and agreement between all stakeholder functions. It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate.

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Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, I fail to see any argument why such short-term traders, by themselves, destroy value for the economy as a whole. Clearly, some of these traders could get very rich even while others lose money, but these trades — unless they influence operators within companies — amount to little more than robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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Don’t Let Your Company Get Trapped by Success

Harvard Business Review

This can be quantified by analyzing the extent to which the share prices of S&P 500 firms are driven by a firm’s present value of future growth options (PVGO) rather than cash flow from current operations. Our research shows that U.S. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow.

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What Shareholder Value is Really About

Harvard Business Review

The research in this area points to three salient points: First, the value of the business is the present value of future cash flows. Executives can reverse engineer those expectations, generally expressed through value drivers, and compare them to the company's internal forecasts.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams.