In our recent book, Management Reset, Chris Worley and I point out that designing organizations that perform well on triple bottom line measures requires more than just management giving lip service to it and taking sustainability into account when some decisions are made.
Nearly four years later, voters seem to think so: approval of his economic management is near rock-bottom, the single-biggest obstacle to his re-election.
Game-changing innovation requires a different kind of management with a new corporate bottom line in which value-adding innovation is a necessity, not an option.
"I think at the end of the day, if you look at over the past 15 to 20 years of the company, you'd have to say the management has been pushing the bottom line, telling doctors to cut corners, basically saying we are going to evaluate you and promote you based on how well you make money, not on how well you take care of the patients, " Caplan said.
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Management expects it to add to the bottom line by the second half of 2007.
The focus on expense management is a positive for Dell's bottom line but could also affect the top line, as it becomes its own best case study.
As we built a multi-functional shared services capability with IT, HR, and Finance, over time we continued to look for other services such as facilities, purchasing, sales order management, meetings, card services, and fleet management to bring under the umbrella to deliver bottom line saving to the corporation.
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Management expects the acquisition to be accretive to the bottom-line in the fiscal second quarter of 2013.
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These include some of the interesting management practices at technology-services companies like Infosys, the bottom-of-the-pyramid strategies like those that Tata is pursuing with the Nano car, or the rapid innovation of some Chinese companies.
But most compensation packages are linked not to long-term value creation and skillful management of long-term risks, but to quarterly or annual bottom line performance.
Despite the victory Italy still finished bottom of the table, but the fact mattered little to both players, management and supporters who celebrated jubilantly in Rome.
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The potential benefits of active energy production are not just financial, though the bottom-line effect is the one that may motivate the board of directors and the management team.
By taking a narrow view of costs, with a principal focus on labor costs, it could appear on a spreadsheet that shipping factories and jobs to China would help the bottom line and pop the share price, and along with that, eye-popping management bonuses.
Western Asset Management is up 1.61% so far this year, putting it in the bottom 35% of funds, but for one year it is up 8.98%, better than 94% of similar funds out there.
In many companies it is the layer of management, the so-called middle manager, who can seem to be unnecessary when the bottom line is threatened.
" The bottom line, says James Schiro, CEO of the multinational accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, is that improving corporate management "is a way to deal with the growing crisis of confidence in the region and globally.
They included its silence over the appointment of Trinity Investment Management to run a portfolio for the Retirement System, despite Trinity's having ranked in the bottom 25% of peers with a similar fund over the previous five years.
He was a superlative, productive dynamo, a technology genius, and someone who learned from his own management failures and set-backs to become a worthy corporate executive too, who focused on the bottom line and on the commercial viability of his products, whether in user-friendly computers, animated motion pictures, online music or smart phones.
And, yes, at the margins there will always be tough decisions, but fundamentally no one can both believe in the American health care system and the professionals who provide that health care who believes in proper management believes you should sacrifice basic quality of care to the decision made by an accountant to make the bottom line of an HMO bigger.
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