A speaker traces 40 years of business obsession with quarterly results over people and strategy. He argues the next generation of leaders can flip this by making decisions that hurt now but build lasting value, using a gym analogy: short-term pain for long-term gain.
If we look at business over the past 40 years, we've seen business become more and more short-term focused. We've seen business become more and more obsessed with numbers before people. Of course money is important. You know, money is fuel that makes the business go. I do think that business has become more short-term focused, and there's a great opportunity for the next generation of leaders, of new leaders. And when I say next generation of leaders, I don't mean younger people. I mean the leaders for the next generation. To restore business to more vision, to more long-term, to making the right decision for the company for time, not just for today. And sometimes it's like going to the gym. If you want to be in shape, you go to the gym and it hurts. For the first few days. You're in pain. It's the same in business. You know, if you want to do good things for the long term, sometimes there's short-term, short-term pain, but it's only short-term.
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