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A focus on quarterly earnings and short-term stock price performance distracts an organization from identifying the strategies that would keep the firm relevant, which is why financially successful companies can still lose their market.

can easily distract an organization from the important business task of identifying strategies that can help a firm remain relevant in the future.

Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017), II. Common Characteristics of Disrupted Companies, p. 6
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Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, The ‘Unmediated’ and ‘Tech-Driven’ Corporate Governance of Today's Winning Companies (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2922176

• listed companies are particularly prone to overweighting financial metrics

failuresupport: arguedfailure: metrics-driven relevancy blindnessfamily: short-termismrisk-and-incentivescorporate-governance

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