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Moving on from ROI to ROE, a Return on Empathy

Strategy Driven

Those making this shift will gain a significant ROE – Return on Empathy. As a result significant business resources are wasted buy an over-reliance on market research that poses only rational questions but neglects to probe customers’ emotional reactions that lie hidden within their answers. Investing in Empathy.

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How Important Is EQ For Entrepreneurs?

The Horizons Tracker

After all, at its heart, it is an unpredictable and uncertain process that requires entrepreneurs and their teams to pivot as circumstances and market conditions change. The analysis found that emotional intelligence was crucial in underpinning the kind of transformative leadership that is so vital to entrepreneurial success.

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Why Complexity Sucks

In the CEO Afterlife

You focus on that 20% to generate a high ROE (return on effort). It starts with the corporate strategy, and includes marketing strategy, and the all-important human resource strategy. In marketing, great branding steers clear of multi-benefits; one clear, compelling benefit will find a place in busy minds.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” It would implement targets linked to shareholder value, including ROE and ROIC.

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Would You Want Carl Icahn to Run Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

During the last few years the market value of the common stock of companies that we were in, amazingly rose $55 billion and they were only $20 billion when we started buying." Icahn then goes on to contradict his assertion that "nobody can attack" corporate governance in the U.S. "We We can get a lot done as activists.

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Women Directors Change How Boards Work

Harvard Business Review

And while research about financial performance is still in its infancy — Catalyst has found a strong correlation between the number of women on boards and in the C-Suite and ROI and ROE of company returns — we’re starting to learn more about the important ways women are changing the inner workings of boards.

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