https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/want-success-think-long-term-take-risks-sir-martin-sorrell
This addresses part of what we've discussed around here in "stay out of my sever room" thread. I especially liked: [quote] This cocktail of pressures is not conducive to long-term strategic thinking, and the financial world’s obsession with quarterly results doesn’t help. One survey revealed that nearly 80% of executives admit they would “take actions to improve quarterly earnings at the expense of long-term value creation”. In this environment, procurement and finance departments (rather than growth-drivers such as marketing and R&D) have the whip hand. Risk-aversion and short-termism rule in the world’s boardrooms. This attitude is entirely understandable—and entirely wrong. Calculated risk-taking, in the form of investment, is the lifeblood of any business that wants to be successful in the long-term. [quote/] -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
