Making the bottom line your top priority may not be the best way to improve profitability. Recent research shows that CEOs who put stakeholders’ interests ahead of profits generate greater workforce engagement—and thus deliver the superior financial results that they have made a secondary goal. This finding is based on survey data gathered from 520 [...]
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Why Profit Shouldn’t Be Your Top Goal
Posted: 1st December 2009 by J. Lilly in Business Start-up, Inspiration & Motivation, Rants and Raves, Tips and TricksTags: balance, ethics, leadership, profit, visionary
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Don’t Wait for the Right Deal to Come Along
Posted: 30th November 2009 by J. Lilly in Business Start-up, Inspiration & Motivation, Tips and TricksTags: creativity, initiation, proactive, startups
“But the best deals sometimes arise from situations where the opportunity had to be created.” “I hear too often from people that they are waiting until the right deal or idea comes along and when it comes they’ll be ready to strike. This is a rather passive approach. Successful business leaders and investors are proactive [...]
The Science of Success
Posted: 23rd November 2009 by J. Lilly in Business Start-up, Inspiration & MotivationTags: science, success
Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. So holds a provocative new theory of genetics, which asserts that the very [...]
