Leadership Transitions and Team Building: Leadership Collection (2 Books)
by Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh
Conclusion
Think back to the era of lifetime employment. Although that model lacked the flexibility to adapt to our networked age, it did encourage long-term thinking. During the 1950s and 1960s, we invested heavily in the future and developed the technologies that drove the Information Age.
The free-agency-style era that followed, and in which we’re still living, leads us away from long-term investment and to a shortsighted focus on instant gratification. Remember: a business without loyalty is a business without long-term thinking. A business without long-term thinking is a business that’s unable to invest in the future. And a business that isn’t investing in tomorrow’s opportunities and technologies is a company already in the process of ...
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