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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x We chase short-term wins. They go after short-term wins and cannot lift their heads high enough to glimpse the future. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels.

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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Spanish flu). Performance Appraisal.

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Shaping Performance & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Spanish flu). Money talks, honey.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team.

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Make Agility Part of Your Process

Harvard Business Review

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.