Posts Tagged ‘Stora Enso’

Maximizing Shareholder Value

Lego businessman on bench

“On the face of it, share­holder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Share­holder value is a res­ult, not a strategy… your main con­stitu­en­cies are your employ­ees, your cus­tom­ers and your products. Man­agers and investors should not set share price increases as their over­arch­ing goal…

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Killing creativity…

Youngme Moon who is the Don­ald K. David Pro­fessor of Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion and Senior Asso­ci­ate Dean at Har­vard Busi­ness School has com­piled an “anti-creativity check­list” that gave me a total flash back to my earlier employer. I believe I heard at least 80% of her sen­tences. Num­bers 1–4 relate to...