>forces participants to consider long term outcomes more I remember many years ago telling a senior executive that I had concerns that some of the steps we wer

>forces participants to consider long term outcomes more I remember many years ago telling a senior executive that I had concerns that some of the steps we were taking to boost current quarter financials would negatively impact business performance in the long term. He just chuckled and said, "there's no such thing as the long term, only a never ending series of current quarters".