Maximize Your Learning in Short-Term Assignments

Harvard Business Review

The number of short-term assignments in companies has been increasing, and the trend is expected to continue. Within large corporations, secondments , short-term transfers, and functional or geographic management rotation programs often thrust full-time employees into short-term jobs.

Lessons from Companies That Put Purpose Ahead of Short-Term Profits

Harvard Business Review

” Paul Polman, the CEO of Unilever, announced that shareholders should sell if they did not agree with his decision to stop giving quarterly results and focus on the long-term creation of value that is “equitable, shared and sustainable.”

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

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.

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BPM should focus on people, not technology

Chartered Management Institute

Of course, with these technological advancements in what BPM can achieve come an equal increase in the complexity of the people related hurdles that managers must overcome to ensure successful execution.

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Two thought-provoking perspectives on the “crisis of capitalism”

First Friday Book Synopsis

transformational innovation in product and process technologies to minimize resource use the “short-termism” of so much modern business lies at the heart of many of today’s problems The challenge for business is to meet global needs in a sustainable fashion The remedies for capitalism Two thought-provoking perspectives on "the crisis of capitalism" UnileverHere are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company.

Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Managing Distraction in the Digital Era

Great Leadership By Dan

According to Cyrus Foroughi, a doctoral student at George Mason University one minute of distraction is more than enough to wipe your short-term memory. An interruption as short as 2.8

What are the ingredients of a high-performing team?

Talent Technologies

Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni has provided a great framework for this, based on his research, in Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team , a programme also facilitated by us here at Talent Technologies.

What are the ingredients of a high-performing team?

Talent Technologies

Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni has provided a great framework for this, based on his research, in Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team , a programme also facilitated by us here at Talent Technologies.

How to Drive Strategies By Assessing Your Company Capabilities

N2Growth Blog

Can assets be turned quickly to meet short-term obligations? Technology. IT Responsiveness: How quickly can technological solutions be fielded to meet business demands?

How HR Can Help Managers To Become Better Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

You aren’t likely to be affected by any team bias or prejudice, and probably find it easy to remain objective about the organization’s short-term and long-term needs. The best leaders, on the other hand, use strategic skills to achieve both short-term and long-term goals.

Ambidextrous Innovation:

Great Leadership By Dan

Yet such a rapid and competitive approach to innovation may not be sustainable over the long term. Fourteen of the world’s 15 most valuable technology brands have disappeared since 1995 (Apple being the exception) through failing to keep up with emerging technologies.

7 Reasons Collaboration Breaks Down

Let's Grow Leaders

Sure working with partners around the globe is logistically more tricky, but becoming easier each day do to amazing technology. Short Term View- True collaborators value the relationship over the small stuff.

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Why Job Descriptions are a Dying Art

Let's Grow Leaders

What I do know is the hundreds, at this point likely thousands, of people I’ve met over the years in reasonable paying jobs, whose fear of working outside their job description absolutely damaged their careers and sabotaged their long-term earnings.

10 Good Reasons to Get a Mentor

Rajesh Setty

Why not technology professionals? By postponing asking the hard questions you are not solving any problem, you are just avoiding the short-term pain. You may escape from “short-term thinking”.

Culture Counts

Leading Blog

Perhaps two of the biggest barriers today to establishing and perpetuating an enduring corporate culture are: excessive CEO and executive compensation packages, reflective of greed and a short-term mindset; and.

The Financial Industry Needs to Start Planning for the Next 50 Years, Not the Next Five

Harvard Business Review

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Businesses need to organize around long-term strategies for growth and partnership in a sustainable way. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

Meetings: Three Ways to Respond to Ineffective Behavior

Great Leadership By Dan

Interrupting, using technology, having side conversations, hijacking the conversation, resisting what someone says, etc.) This is the most confronting of the three options, but it is the mostly likely option for producing a long-term change in the behavior.

How to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change

Leading Blog

To achieve balance, break the goal down into parts: a single long-term macro goal and a number of short-term process goals, or micro goals. The Dragonfly Effect is a good model to show how technology can support real world missions. Social Media.

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High Performing Organizations

Coaching Tip

Despite the diverse range of industries--business, sports, technology, finance, education, and the arts--each of these successful institutions share a common bond: they are world-class industry leaders and have repeatedly outperformed their competition. "At Priorities Establishing short-term, organization-wide focus and milestones for achieving progress.

How Do You Inspire Others Through Your Leadership?

Tanveer Naseer

That we move beyond simply evaluating our leadership in terms of various established metrics like goal achievement, productivity, and efficiency ratings, in order to ask ourselves what seeds are we planting in the hearts and minds of those we lead?

7 Leadership Pitfalls That Sabotage Company Growth

The Empowered Buisness

New disruptive technologies may displace your products/services as alternative solutions to your markets. Hiring for current skills, not long term capabilities. When small, hiring for the short term is necessary as your resource needs are not always clear.

10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

Reverse mentoring — in which younger staff members share their knowledge of new technology with a more established staff member — can also be effective. The following is a guest piece by Jessica Leitch, David Lancefield, and Mark Dawson.

Understanding Leadership And The Meaning Of Life

Tanveer Naseer

Thanks to technological advances of the past few decades, the key to organizational success and longevity is no longer found exclusively in our processes or devices, but in the people we lead and in particular, in our ability to encourage them to bring their full selves to the work they do.

Leading For A Better Tomorrow

Tanveer Naseer

Management has no choice but to anticipate the future, to attempt to mold it, and to balance short-term and long-range goals. In short, it must be organized for constant change. The following is a guest piece by Bruce Rosenstein.

How Marketers Can Avoid Big Data Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

Overcoming “short-term-ism”. One major blind spot for marketers to be aware of is “short-term-ism” that most analytics engender. The reality is that the majority of marketing activities have both a short- and long-term impact on sales. The short-term impact is typically responsible for 10-30 percent of total sales while the long-term impact (called also the “base” or brand-building impact) is 1-3 times greater than the short-term effect.

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The Ways Your Brain Manages Overload, and How to Improve Them

Harvard Business Review

At the receiving end of this deluge of verbiage is the human brain — your brain— metaphorically endowed with a vacuum cleaner that sucks up information; a container for short-term memory; a blender for integrating information; a memory bank for storing long-term information; a garbage disposal for getting rid of information; and a recycling machine extraordinaire. Placing a filter on the container: Short-term memory is like a cup filled with ideas.

Brain Science Secrets to Increasing Leadership Willpower

The Empowered Buisness

It catalyzed me to seek mindset tools and technologies to create results with ease and less effort. Psychologists now understand that willpower is defined by 5 specific characteristics: Delaying gratification and resisting short-term temptations to meet long-term goals.

July 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Technology is proving to be a powerful enabler to bringing people together from around the globe. John Hunter of Curious Cat submitted Technological Innovation and Management. Welcome to the July 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival!

The 5 Things IBM Needs to Do to Win at AI

Harvard Business Review

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Strategy Technology Organizational culture Article

Moving From ?Good Enough’ To Greatness

Tanveer Naseer

In terms of today’s leadership, this impacts how we go about addressing the ever-increasing amount of information and data we’re exposed to on a given day.

A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.). Technology Data Digital Article

Experts Have No Idea If Robots Will Steal Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Conventional wisdom has long held that, while technology may displace workers in the short-term, it does not reduce employment over the long-term. Several Pew respondents — experts from a wide range of technology-related fields — echoed this line of thinking.

Rising to power in business

Tony Mayo

Don’t change companies for short term advantage.

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How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Harvard Business Review

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. One of us, Arvind Gupta, is head of technology for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party, and has been for the past seven years. In fact they are always greatest over the long-term, while the costs are concentrated in the near-term. Using Technology to Go From Identity to Financial Inclusion.

The Changing Economics of App Development

Harvard Business Review

App marketing technology provider Fiksu reported recently that the costs associated with retaining one “loyal user” - that is, someone who opens an app three times or more - hit a whopping $4.04 Technology Business models Article

Using Data to Increase Patient Engagement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The English grandmaster Nigel Short recently declared that computers are stripping chess of its mystery; by crunching reams of data, computers can deconstruct once-obscure board positions in a matter of seconds and reveal the optimal move. Growth strategy Technology Health Article

Celebrating Diversity

Marshall Goldsmith

We can’t assume that instant information will lead to long-term quality of communication. Attempts to protect noncompetitive industries or workers produces a short-term benefit but does not stop the development of better and cheaper products. Building long-term value and avoiding short-term stimulation. Residents of the global community have almost unlimited access to sources of pleasurable, short-term stimulation.

A Timely Reminder Of The Power Of Empathy In Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

And for Lincoln, the fact that they not only re-elected him to a second term, but gave his Republican party a majority in Congress showed him that they supported his vision for their country and how he plans to go about making it a reality.

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A New Way to Think About Office Lighting

Harvard Business Review

The technology exists to revolutionize commercial lighting: LED bulbs and today’s intelligent digital controls systems can together provide higher-quality indoor environments while saving significant energy and money. Tenants don’t feel empowered to invest in capital projects, especially when their leases are short term. Service providers bear the performance risk, as they are paid the calculated lighting energy savings realized over the term of the agreement.