With the pace of business change today, driven by technology and globalization, long-term plans last about as long as an ice storm in the desert. If you really want to deliver your strategy both quickly and effectively, eschew your desire for long-term planning. MORE
CEOs are increasingly frustrated by the short-term orientation of investors. They say markets underappreciate long-term investments and ignore issues like employee and customer welfare, while pressuring companies to make decisions that maximize short-term earnings and stock prices. MORE
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But it’s an idea that demands attention, investment, and a long view of the market. It’s why venture investors and entrepreneurs tend to be committed for the long haul. The unfortunate truth is that most public company executives don’t last too long in their roles. MORE
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photo credit: aussiegall I know it is tough to look at things from a truly long term perspective, but you need to try. A long term [.]. I’ve now been directly managing online communities for 12 years. I’ve been involved with moderation of communities for probably 14. And I’ve been on the web for 17 years. Developing Your Community Thinking MORE
But building and maintaining a management culture that reinforces delighting customers and long term thinking is quite difficult. It requires a sustainable business plan that is robust and able to succeed over the long term. MORE
Senior executives need to balance the long- and short-term demands of their businesses, and meetings need to mirror this balance. Leaders also like to solve problems and check them off, and short-term items provide us with visible ways to mark progress. Even though executives are supposed to delegate solvable problems to their direct reports, walking away from a concrete, short-term issue is as hard as driving past an accident without rubbernecking. MORE
To hear long-term investors tell it, company executives have embraced short-term thinking like never before. Why would executives, charged with sustainable value creation, put so much focus on short-term maneuvers like distributing earnings instead of reinvesting them? MORE
and Leverne Barrett, Extension Leadership Specialist of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension, depicts someone’s choice of influence tactics in terms of the “softness” versus “hardness” of the tactic. MORE
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Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust. And to do so most effectively you need to partner with your suppliers over the long term. End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag. MORE
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Chapter 8: Secure Your Community Part 14 (Conclusion). One of the themes of this chapter is to recognize the power community has over how we behave. Community establishes hidden rules for behavior, and provides a set of rituals and customs to support the behavioral norms. At work the rituals are things like the all hands company meetings that take place on a quarterly or weekly basis. MORE
The problem with many long-term challenges are the outcomes do not happen fast enough to know exactly what works and what does not. The advent of the internet and internet advertising seemed to push a move towards measuring direct results. MORE
But if weeks and then months go by without the most important issues being addressed the long term consequences are drastic. As managers and executives it is critical to focus on the long term success of the organization. MORE
Innovation IT engineering Health care Japan long term thinking system thinking ToyotaJapan has an extremely rapidly aging population. This increases the need for health care and for assistance with everyday tasks from the elderly. MORE
That’s because happiness, they argue, is linked to the kind of longer term thinking necessary for making investments for the future. At a time when companies are plagued by short-term thinking and are sitting on cash , happiness could be a missing part of the puzzle. MORE
Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. For CEOs, creating and communicating long-term growth strategy is easier said than done. MORE
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Our empirical findings suggest that cultural heterogeneity, measured by either fractionalization or polarization, has a discernible positive impact on the growth rate of GDP over long time periods. International migration is on the rise. By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. MORE
Last week, I gave you a metaphor to consider – the idea that we romance Clients or Customers to get them (like a first few dates), but after they are Clients, we tend to focus less attention on them (like 10 years after the wedding). If you want to avoid this tendency, both personally and [.]. MORE
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Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view. remain so high for so long if short-termism were such a drag on performance? MORE
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Change Decision Making Leadership Leadership Communication Success 10000 year clock big picture Jeff Bezos long term planning perspectiveOne of the roles of a leader is to provide the perspective that the rest of the team or organization might not see. It is easy to get caught up in the daily to-do list, the quarterly objectives and the rhythm of the calendar, and lose sight of the bigger picture, the larger goals, the [.]. MORE
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per year in long-run stock returns – 89% to 184% cumulative – even after controlling for other factors that drive returns. I thus decided to tackle the causality issue by measuring performance using long-run stock returns. Does employee satisfaction improve firm value? MORE
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With the pace of business change today, driven by technology and globalization, long-term plans last about as long as an ice storm in the desert. If you really want to deliver your strategy both quickly and effectively, eschew your desire for long-term planning.
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Last week, I gave you a metaphor to consider – the idea that we romance Clients or Customers to get them (like a first few dates), but after they are Clients, we tend to focus less attention on them (like 10 years after the wedding). If you want to avoid this tendency, both personally and [.].
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The post Employee freaks out when long-term co-worker becomes her supervisor appeared first on Managers Are Heroes. The Scenario. “I want to register a complaint,” Lucy Alschuler announced as she stamped into Stu Capper’s office. “About what, exactly, Lucy?”
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I'm re-posting from the archives because the issue of real, authentic collaboration has been coming up a few times a lot lately, especially in light of the Vulnerability & Trust Leadership Paradox radio show John Hagel , Saul Kaplan and Mike Waite did with me a few weeks ago.
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I read a blog post recently that indicated the death of long-term planning was imminent. In the age of short-term, instant everything, long-range planning gets a bad rap. I just think you may still need a long-term plan.
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What drives your daily activities—your long-term vision or making the numbers this quarter? If you’re a board member, do you incentivize your executives to make a long-term contribution for the company or to keep the shareholders happy this quarter? George discusses important topics including insisting on the long term, managing expectations and creating lasting value. Why are you in business?
First Friday Book Synopsis
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. Tom Peters Excellent: very good of its kind; eminently good Relevant: having direct bearing on the matter in hand; pertinent ————— This is a short and simple blog post. What makes for a successful company or organization? How about this? Excellence [.]. Randy's blog entries
Deming Institute
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Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust. And to do so most effectively you need to partner with your suppliers over the long term. End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag.
Ron Edmondson
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If I could give one piece of advice to leaders who want long-term success it would be this: Learn the people. Long-timer in a church or organization? What advice would you give to leaders who want long-term success? Related posts: 3 Essentials for Long-Term Success.
Ron Edmondson
DECEMBER 10, 2012
I previously wrote “ One Secret of Leaders with Long-Term Success “ I still believe that’s a powerful part of leadership. The post Another Characteristic of Leaders with Long-term Success appeared first on Ron Edmondson. Endurance.
CEO Blog
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The problem with many long-term challenges are the outcomes do not happen fast enough to know exactly what works and what does not. The advent of the internet and internet advertising seemed to push a move towards measuring direct results.
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In fact, he has been accepting Farmer Jones’ IOUs for so long that he no longer remembers his original reason for doing so. Torence Reply Re: Leaders Produce Long-Term Results by J.D.
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Lead Change Blog
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Leadership Development Bottom-line results Career opportunities Discretionary effort engagement Feedback Long-term success Pride recognitionPosted in Leadership Development You’ve seen the research. Read the reports. Talked to leaders and employees alike.
Mills Scofield
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The calculation defines gain in financial terms. We need to consider intangible returns - gains in learning, brand authenticity, and cultural improvement, for instance, which make a bigger difference in the long run.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 6, 2016
To hear long-term investors tell it, company executives have embraced short-term thinking like never before. Why would executives, charged with sustainable value creation, put so much focus on short-term maneuvers like distributing earnings instead of reinvesting them?
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
CEOs are increasingly frustrated by the short-term orientation of investors. They say markets underappreciate long-term investments and ignore issues like employee and customer welfare, while pressuring companies to make decisions that maximize short-term earnings and stock prices.
Kevin Eikenberry
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Change Decision Making Leadership Leadership Communication Success 10000 year clock big picture Jeff Bezos long term planning perspectiveOne of the roles of a leader is to provide the perspective that the rest of the team or organization might not see. It is easy to get caught up in the daily to-do list, the quarterly objectives and the rhythm of the calendar, and lose sight of the bigger picture, the larger goals, the [.].
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2017
Senior executives need to balance the long- and short-term demands of their businesses, and meetings need to mirror this balance. Leaders also like to solve problems and check them off, and short-term items provide us with visible ways to mark progress. Even though executives are supposed to delegate solvable problems to their direct reports, walking away from a concrete, short-term issue is as hard as driving past an accident without rubbernecking.
Deming Institute
JUNE 29, 2015
But if weeks and then months go by without the most important issues being addressed the long term consequences are drastic. As managers and executives it is critical to focus on the long term success of the organization.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view. remain so high for so long if short-termism were such a drag on performance?
Execupundit
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Anderson Layman's Blog has a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. What a great body of work. There are many fine cartoonists but I don't know if anyone has approached that series
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2016
How do you get people to do what they’re supposed to do, particularly when it comes to following standard processes that are essential to getting their job done successfully? And does employee monitoring help or hinder these efforts?
Rajesh Setty
AUGUST 28, 2013
It is common sense but sometimes we forget this – Long term relationships take a LONG time to build but it takes one bad move to break them. entrepreneurship escalating friction gaining capacity good help good karma leverage long-term relationships moving the needle
Deming Institute
JANUARY 9, 2017
One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success. How to Stop Short-Term Thinking at America’s Companies.
The Idolbuster
JANUARY 7, 2013
Chapter 8: Secure Your Community Part 14 (Conclusion). One of the themes of this chapter is to recognize the power community has over how we behave. Community establishes hidden rules for behavior, and provides a set of rituals and customs to support the behavioral norms. At work the rituals are things like the all hands company meetings that take place on a quarterly or weekly basis.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2017
Our empirical findings suggest that cultural heterogeneity, measured by either fractionalization or polarization, has a discernible positive impact on the growth rate of GDP over long time periods. International migration is on the rise. By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2014
But it’s an idea that demands attention, investment, and a long view of the market. It’s why venture investors and entrepreneurs tend to be committed for the long haul. The unfortunate truth is that most public company executives don’t last too long in their roles.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 13, 2013
While last week’s jobs numbers extolled a decline in the national unemployment rate, the numbers for the long-term unemployed didn’t even budge. . This fact suggests that, for many job seekers, a lack of education is not the cause of long-term unemployment.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 9, 2015
That’s because happiness, they argue, is linked to the kind of longer term thinking necessary for making investments for the future. At a time when companies are plagued by short-term thinking and are sitting on cash , happiness could be a missing part of the puzzle.
Curious Cat
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Innovation IT engineering Health care Japan long term thinking system thinking ToyotaJapan has an extremely rapidly aging population. This increases the need for health care and for assistance with everyday tasks from the elderly.
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. For CEOs, creating and communicating long-term growth strategy is easier said than done.
Deming Institute
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But building and maintaining a management culture that reinforces delighting customers and long term thinking is quite difficult. It requires a sustainable business plan that is robust and able to succeed over the long term.
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per year in long-run stock returns – 89% to 184% cumulative – even after controlling for other factors that drive returns. I thus decided to tackle the causality issue by measuring performance using long-run stock returns. Does employee satisfaction improve firm value?
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