Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. It is a theme that runs through most of these titles.

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Marketers, who work for the likes of P&G or Unilever, periodically check brand awareness and brand attributes to measure progress. Over the medium and long term, we measured and rewarded equity growth by: Articulating the sales/share/margin formulae and measuring annually. The Hard-Knock Valuation of Brand Equity Growth.

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Brand CEO P&L Brand Management 253

Leading with Trust

JUNE 22, 2020

As long as you have a heartbeat and breath in your lungs, you will have the desire to be appreciated, honored, and trusted in your relationships with others. ” L earning—In order to build and preserve face, it’s important to be a lifelong learner. Everyone wants to be respected and valued.

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P&L How To Self-aware Emotional Intelligence 100

Women on Business

OCTOBER 20, 2011

You will see the change in the quality of your experience immediately, but it’s the long-term, big picture transformation you need to commit to. Most would have chosen to use a plastic screen, for reasons that usually turn up on a P&L projection. Once you have identified your genius it will flourish over time.

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P&L Audience Long-term Learning-by-Doing 223

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Mentors might equip their protégés with specific skills like how to build healthy relationships, how to use the company’s project management software, how to become a leader, what to look for when reading a P&L, or, in the case of Adwoa Dadzie, how to think big. “I

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 74

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Mentors might equip their protégés with specific skills like how to build healthy relationships, how to use the company’s project management software, how to become a leader , what to look for when reading a P&L, or, in the case of Adwoa Dadzie, how to think big. “I

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

They overcame short-term thinking. A majority of public companies pledge allegiance to short-term profit over long-term vision. They were willing and had the authority to test the project, and they could persuade their peers to forego near-term profit for a potential long-term payoff.

Innovation 11

Innovation P&L Short-term Company 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Likewise, marketing wants to clearly quantify the impact of its long-term branding efforts while finance is more focused on macro-economic drivers of marketing performance, such as interest rates, employment levels, inflation and retail sales. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2017

The pros-and-cons list enjoys a long and storied history, going back at least as far as 1772, when Benjamin Franklin advised his friend and fellow scientist Joseph Priestley to “divide half a s heet of p aper by a l ine into two columns, writing over the one Pro, and over the other Con.” You and Your Team Series.

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P&L Goleman Self-aware Emotional Intelligence 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

These lower-income shoppers think like savvy CFOs and are willing to pay more for categories that provide a usage benefit as well as a variety of economic benefits for their own "household P&L.". These strategies not only leave money on the table, but are not viable strategies for long-term profitable growth.

Retail 15

Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? But note how P&G did it. With former CEO A.G. Asking A.G.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Establish "an unbending standard of performance" : Since 1965, Buffett has annually compared Berkshire's compounded growth in book value per share to the growth in the S&P 500 (plus dividends). In all but seven of these 45 years, Berkshire beat the S&P. Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses.

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Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 15

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 30, 2010

Organizational culture is something that, in so many companies, is ignored and yet its impact runs deep, and to me, ultimately dictates an organization’s level of long-term success and employee contribution. Some things to think about What kind of culture exists in your workplace? Does it serve you or get in your way?

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Video P&L Blog Long-term 44

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Patience and a long-term view. Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. Directness. He's personable, but blunt.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures. Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L. For any business to succeed over the long term, it must earn a return that exceeds its cost of capital. Here are four things leaders can do.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

On the other hand, a highly differentiated offering is no longer a guarantee of long-term value creation. Additionally, impractical and quickly outmoded high level P&L management can be supplanted by performance metrics that stress driving value for every critical part of the enterprise. Insight Center.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

keep hearing from top executives at large, profitable companies that they're under "P&L pressure." But the pressure to "impress analysts" means that leaders can't pursue the long-term perspective that creates truly lasting, great, and sustainable organizations.

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GAAP Short-term P&L EPS 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

And if you end up with a negative ROI, the project is harder to justify on financial terms. “Algorithms are fabulous as long as they are based on good assumptions and good data,” Avery says, but most managers find that collecting data needed to make good assumptions can be the most difficult part of the process.

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ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Although this centers the organization on achieving in-year goals, it hinders efforts to maximize the long-term value of customer relationships. Create dynamic, high-resolution customer profiles.

Insurance 8

Insurance P&L CRM Telecommunications 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Perspective – ability to see or sense the big picture, long-term thinking. Only a long-term commitment to maintaining a culture that fosters trust will pay off. Daniel Goleman used the term in his book Ecological Intelligence. Zest – enthusiasm for life, work, learning…. 4) Knowledge Sharing -.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Face facts: Most boards invest heavily in executive assessments, exposing chief-executive candidates to C-suite responsibilities and checking their P&L performance — while simultaneously scanning outside prospects. Their prior question here is sure to be the company’s long-term strategy.

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CEO Committee P&L Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

David is a VP who is accountable for a multi-billion dollar P & L business. In the long-term, for Target this means that I'm a more engaged leader without an unmanageable tension between my wife and my work.". We were able to come up with two week-long vacations, but planned well in advance, and then two long weekends.

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P&L Long-term Learning-by-Doing Team 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

” I love this quote from L. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.” It describes some of the most inspiring, happy, and successful professionals I know. Plan properly.

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P&L Sharpe Hotels Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

David is a VP accountable for a multibillion-dollar P&L. In the long-term, this means that I''m a more engaged leader for Target without an unmanageable tension between my wife and my work.". His name and title are disguised.) Now I might be in the office for fewer hours, but I''m making faster and better decisions.

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P&L Succession Short-term Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Saying you want P&L responsibility in five years when you have no such ambitions may land you the job, but ultimately will you be happy? Butler suggests you avoid naming a particular role and answer the question in terms of learning and development: What capabilities will you have wanted to build in five years?

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P&L Committee Career Case Study 18

The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A leader wearing the hat of teacher focuses on building competencies and thinking capabilities – such as how to read a P&L statement or presentation skills. While awakening is definitely not a common term within organizations, leaders who operate at a high level of consciousness and being are the awakeners in the business world.

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P&L Strategic Planning Game Theory Mission Statement 100

Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

For long-term success, the person has to look “Beyond Code&# – mostly related to the people side of things. I was hooked on the book as soone as I saw your nine L's in the table of contents. Here's a thing about life: Something that has been built over a long period of time can be destroyed almost instantly.

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Download Licensing Software Open-book 28

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

They must plan for the long-term while minding the short-term, grow the top line yet ensure the bottom line stays healthy, and minimize risks while making risky bets. This matters for two reasons. First, a CEO’s job involves striking a balance between a wide set of seemingly contradictory interests.

How To 8

How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

It seems the reasons for this are twofold: Leaders too often express what they want in terms not of outcomes , but of tasks, and they rarely, if ever, make clear the full extent of the change they are asking for. Where on the P&L are we feeling, or anticipating, pain? What are the imperatives driving this change?

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Middle Management How To Metrics Follow-up 14

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. They over focus on short term results and under focus on relationships. Executives with this profile are long on “me&# and short on “we.&#

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Bottom-up Short-term Executive Coaching Open-book 177

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The list of "once-in-a-century" storms, floods, and droughts this year is too long to list. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Another, who works with legal executives, said, “Lawyers and compliance people are focused on reputation in a number of ways, e.g., the brand of the company, the reputation that the firm has in terms of its adherence to rules and regulations, and the reputation of people that work there.”. Current and future prospects.

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Reputation Consultative P&L Execution 13

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

This way, we can finally move beyond anecdotal and personal viewpoints to empirical, hard facts over whether this really is an issue leaders need to be addressing to ensure their organization’s long-term success and growth. & Rubin I.M. & Coulon, L. ”, Journal of Managerial Psychology, 23(8), p.

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 264

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

She led him down a long corridor to a door marked "Hotel Manager." You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. What about long-term strategy? The hotel looked fabulous — five-star, just as they'd intended.

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Companies have long struggled to generate sustained profitable growth – and few have succeeded. Given that money today is always worth more than money in the future, you are trying to establish what the future value of the investment will be in terms of that money’s value today. But they do it very consciously.

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Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50