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July's Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit July’s Leadership Carnival Published by Michael Lee Stallard on July 5, 2010 03:56 am under E Pluribus Partners Every month I participate in a leadership carnival with several bloggers whose work I respect.

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

It tends to be short-term, uses familiar (traditional) metrics and development systems like Stage Gate. When forced to present familiar metrics for truly out-of-the-box "beginning" ideas, work teams develop what our friend Jay Paap calls "Imaginary Numbers." So let's talk about incremental. The risks-rewards are relatively low.

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Beware of Short-term Management, Not the Short-term Investor

Harvard Business Review

A firm's long-term value should correspond to the present value of future expected cash flows. It might even be at the root of national competitiveness (or lack of it), and the economy's (in)ability to develop projects with longer gestation periods.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

When multiple players compete for the same space, revenues indicate the progress towards achieving market leadership that creates the dominant protocol for industry partners, suppliers, and customers. (In In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Tools for each challenge are presented, backed by examples from companies – from small firms to global giants – that have successfully put these methods into practice.