It's the classic challenge - to find and develop opportunities for long-term growth in value while meeting immediate and intense pressure for short-term earnings. Organizations that focus exclusively on next quarter's results may survive in the near term - but will their competitiveness disappear over time? And what about organizations that see such potential in the long view that they miss their immediate commitments to the Street?
With the average CEO's tenure shortening, organizations are challenged as never before to deliver long-term value creation while managing for short-term performance. Even those who do it well often question if they are on the right path.
In this Executive eBriefing, SDG combines observations and research into the track records of Fortune 500 companies - their consistency of earnings and their results in growing shareholder value. Speaker David Fishman first presented these findings at Harvard Business School Publishing's CEO conference Burning Questions 2003.