Sentences with phrase «institutional imperative»

«My most surprising discovery: the overwhelming importance in business of an unseen force that we might call «the institutional imperative».

Instead rationality frequently wilts when the institutional imperative comes into play.

The years spent in large organizations also made me well aware of the institutional imperative and the dangers / perils of groupthink.

The High Museum of Art has responded to that institutional imperative, yet, like many of its peers, it is still at work conceiving and implementing new ways to function and succeed as a 21st - century museum.

Buffett talks a lot about the concept he calls the «institutional imperative».

In his 1989 shareholder letter, when he was describing his mistakes of the first 25 years managing Berkshire, he outlines what he means by this (emphasis mine): «My most surprising discovery: the overwhelming importance in business of an unseen force that we might call «the institutional imperative.»

But second, the Institutional Imperative's really about empire building... [And God forbid, share repurchases would shrink that empire!]

If the Institutional Imperative does reign supreme, I'm confident Zamano offers significant upside potential regardless... And if management manages to shoot the lights out & actually deliver sustained organic growth, an exceptional acquisition (& integration), an aggressive share repurchase programme, and / or a superior bid, these are all free options on sale today.

I don't really know what they're doing, but I'd guess the institutional imperative calls for them to hug the index and over - or under - weight particular industries, sectors or companies on the basis of a story («Green is the new black,» «China will consume us back to the boom,» «house prices never go down,» «the new dot com economy will destroy the old bricks - and - mortar economy» etc).

Resisting the «Institutional Imperative» Can the company resist temptations created by institutional dynamics, such as imitating peer companies, or resist changes in direction?

One reason why value investing will continue is the institutional imperative of wall street.

When Hagstrom mentions the «institutional imperative», he is referring to the tendency of companies to make foolish decisions based on the actions of their peers.

The «institutional imperative» as defined by Buffett is too powerful for many CEOs to overcome.

This avoids what Buffett calls the «institutional imperative» about which Buffett writes:

The institutional imperative in this case is the emphasis and importance that publicly traded companies place on what Wall Street analysts think about the stock price of their company.

«My most surprising discovery: the overwhelming importance in business of an unseen force that we might call «the institutional imperative.»

Not exact matches

Additionally, through critical conversations and dialogue with colleagues in the HGSE community, I have realized how imperative it is to continue to deconstruct traditional systems of education in order to further understand how the development of identity (whether human, institutional, or organizational) is imperative for creating lasting change.

Teaching has become «apolitical... stripped of its... ethical imperative to analyze and remediate existing societal and institutional practices» and of its mission to promote «self - empowerment and social transformation.»

Educators must understand the history and context of American public education, including institutional racism and discrimination, as well as the moral imperative to ensure equity of outcomes, opportunities and resources for the most vulnerable students.

It explores how public universities position themselves as institutional actors globally, regionally and nationally; and how South African and international students experience the competing imperatives shaping higher education policy and practice.

In the 1990s, this practice was reflexively attuned to the institutional context (Fred Wilson, Mark Dion), but in the past decade it has taken a more automatist form, subordinating legible or didactic connections between works to the imperative of individual sensibility, as for example in Mark Wallinger's «The Russian Linesman» (2009), Vik Muniz's «Rebus» (2009), or Grayson Perry's phenomenally popular «The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman» (2011).

Looked at in aggregate terms, non-family civil proceedings are subject to an institutional squeeze — there is a constitutional imperative to try criminal cases within a reasonable time (the Askov issue) and a social imperative to move family law cases (particularly those involving children) through the system to trial with dispatch.

Ellen O'Malley - Dunlop, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre» CEO said: «It is imperative that adequate funding be given as promised to those organisations providing therapeutic services to survivors of institutional abuse.

Therefore, it is imperative to determine whether a foster care intervention, which places children in a family setting, can potentially remediate some of the negative social effects of previous institutional care and identify specific factors that play a role in this process.