Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2015

There is still a propensity to use the word manager verses leader which can have a significant different intend and meaning. Managers tend to govern over process, data, projects and products while leaders tend to utilize human capital to navigate these same areas and participate as part of the process.

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Leadership Attrition Human Capital System 120

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

When Patrick Collison, CEO of electronic payments company Stripe, helped kick off our second-year strategy course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business this year, he observed that this has created one of the most profound differences in decision criteria between leaders in industrial-era and internet-era companies. So is Facebook.

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Collison Net Present Value Company Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

” Laying out their data, they find that long-term oriented companies create more financial value and more jobs. I agree with their vision of a future in which more companies focus on the long term and become more productive for the world (their findings accord with my own work on the dangers of short-termism ).

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Hedge Short-term Long-term NPV 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. The ready access to low-cost capital should change the way business leaders think about strategy, and in particular the relative value of improving profit margins versus accelerating growth. The Refresher: Net Present Value. Related Video.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 13

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded. How do they do it? If it is positive, it’s thumbs up, if it’s negative, it’s thumbs down.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Successful companies shape their high-level strategies by relying not on complicated frameworks but on simple rules of thumb. It illustrates how simple rules can help companies shape strategy in an uncertain environment. Rail accounted for only 20% of long-haul shipments in Brazil, compared with 80% in most countries.

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Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

Activist investors challenge management strategies. Investors and others ask why companies binge on buybacks while skimping on value-creating investment opportunities. Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Incentives 9