While financial markets are often not equated with athletics, capital raising has a lot in common with sports: there is a clear objective, the playing field is constantly changing, competition is fierce and mental factors often separate winning and losing. When walking the narrow path between triumph and defeat, a strong, flexible mindset is vital. […]
The evaluation of leaders has historically been heavily biased toward results: the leaders of well-performing institutions are assumed to be good and the leaders of poorly performing institutions are assumed to be bad. But are results alone the best measure of leadership performance? On many occasions, leaders play little role in a company’s success and […]
To keep up with the ever-growing mass of information in the world and decreasing amounts of time to digest it, there are many materials designed to help people read books as quickly as possible. While any tactics that help us cope with the exponentially growing number of theories, data and recommendations flooding into our lives […]
Business strategy is at the heart of firm competitiveness and value creation ability. Despite its importance, many entrepreneurs and companies design strategy based on inaccurate assumptions about markets or even themselves, which often causes them to get off track operationally, lose competitive strength and become trapped in inefficient patterns of resource use. To reduce strategy […]
For companies that are raising capital, one key investor concern is the company’s ability to attract and retain talent to drive the company’s business forward and respond to challenges that arise along the way. This is a significant challenge for companies that are at an early growth stage, because they often do not have the […]
Significant media attention has been given to the phenomenon of “quiet quitting”, the decision by an employee to do the bare minimum required at work. Given the challenges that companies as well as employees have faced during the Covid pandemic, quiet quitting has drawn sharply divergent opinions, with some viewing quiet quitters as slackers with […]
While many companies are focused on generating shareholder value, defining shareholder value and measuring its growth can be challenging. Shareholder value, which reflects many tangible and intangible elements of a corporation, is a complex, multifaceted concept that can be measured in many different ways, including through corporate valuation techniques, different return measures and growth metrics. […]
From a classical economic perspective, the company and shareholder relationship can be viewed as an exchange of economic interests: a shareholder provides capital to a company today in exchange for the expectation of receiving that capital back plus a return on that capital at some point in the future. This view of company and shareholder […]
Corporate communication is a very broad area of firm activity where a great deal of business value can be created or lost. It is the dynamic medium through which firm goals are set forth, relationships throughout the firm are established, work is carried out and challenges and opportunities are met. Despite its importance, many firms […]
While a great strategy can have a large impact on firm competitive position and value creation, many firms have inefficient approaches to strategy creation that do not lead to optimum returns on the use of strategy resources. This is because firms often use biased strategy formulation processes that adopt courses of action that, although sounding […]
