Quarterly Profits vs. Long-Term Strategy: Many companies are keenly focused on quarterly short-term financial performance in order for management to demonstrate its value to key stakeholders, especially shareholders and Wall St. analysts who can influence their stock prices.

But the firm has to constantly remind itself of its mission and purpose for existing, which very rarely consists only of short-term financial profits. The firm has to ensure that it also focuses on its longer term, strategic objectives and investments in order to remain relevant, competitive, and a market leader well into the future. It is those firms that can manage this delicate and dynamic balance that will actually maximize its share price and market value over the longer term and not just quarter to quarter.

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Transcend from Management to Leadership examines the foundations that effective managers have based their management practices on and offers insights that can serve as a new foundation to base their leadership style upon in order to succeed in a hypercompetitive global business environment.

The art of management has mainly focused on efficiency, productivity, and profitability. While this has historically delivered impressive growth results, it will be those managers who can effectively transcend to leaders that will succeed in a hypercompetitive global business. This will entail not only having a compelling vision but also engaging and empowering your most strategic asset, your employees.

 The Globalization Paradigm examines the effect that globalization has on industry consolidation (and its underlying structure and competitiveness).  As competitive pressures intensify and the concepts of efficiency, speed, and economies of scale and scope have become crucial for continued survival, industry consolidation is inevitable under globalization.  Companies in globalizing industries will have to grow through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in order to survive and remain competitive. M&A provides companies with immediate access to products, technology, customers, geographic markets, distribution channels, information systems, and skill sets.

The Consumer Value Model: Price has historically been associated with cost, profit, and quality. Consumer value is often inferred from quality, but quality can exist independent of consumer value. Quality, in and of itself, is not a substitute, or a predictor of value.

The key determinant of consumer value is a function of benefits (perceived and real) over total cost (price, time, travel, risk, etc.), analyzed in the context of competitive choices. My Consumer Value Model (V=B/C) provides for the measurement of total value for a selected group of a product or service offering and will indicate which brand delivers the greatest value to potential customers, thus increasing the probability of converting them into paying customers.