“Whether a business should be run for short-term results or with a focus on the long term is likewise a question of values. Financial analysts believe that businesses can be run for both simultaneously.
Successful businesspeople know better. To be sure, every company has to produce short-term results. But in any conflict between short-term results and long-term growth, each company will determine its own priority.
This is not primarily a disagreement about economics. It is fundamentally a value conflict regarding the function of a business and the responsibility of management.” — Peter Drucker, HBR 1/2005
