A fire hose without a nozzle just floods the ground. Add a nozzle, and the same force can cut through distance and extinguish the fire. That’s the power of narrowing down — of focus. Most CEOs know focus matters — few know how to design it strategically. Because focus has to align with strategic implementation, […]
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Mostafa Sayyadi, Author, Leading Between the Lines The business environment is constantly changing as organizations are increasingly participating in global markets. Hypercompetition has become the norm. Innovation is also a crucial part of hypercompetitive environments. Organizations can design, copy, or update products and services easier with more adaptability then ever today. Leaders can apply innovation strategy
Gerri Knilans, President, Trade Press Services Marketing tactics and marketing strategies. These two phrases are used interchangeably, but are tactics the same as strategies? The simple answer is no. Here’s how to understand the differences between tactics and strategies and ensure day-to-day activities support the company’s growth initiatives. What is a strategy? A strategy is
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Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit, Authors, Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds Only 1-in-12 companies manage to rise from the middle of the pack to the top. Here’s how to become one of them Several times a year, top management teams enter the strategy room with
Brett Richards, Founder & President, Connective Intelligence, Inc. In today’s volatile market, where speed and performance are critical to business success, CEOs face an unprecedented number of challenges to accelerate growth and differentiate themselves from their competitors. Now more than ever before, leaders need to take the guesswork out of driving growth with better metrics to
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Carsten Linz, Günter Müller-Stewens & Alexander Zimmermann 1. Leading Radical Shifts with Transformational Mindset Today’s exponential change, fueled by the two mega trends – digitization and service orientation (‘servitization’) – makes business model transformation a key strategic priority for many leaders. Companies, which are still relying on outdated business models, face the risk of becoming irrelevant.
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Leaders aim to make their mark on business operations, imprint their philosophies on their staff, leave their legacy on the organization. They hope the team will remember their leadership as unique, profitable, and pleasant. Understandable goals. But all too often, new leaders start out with similar clichés and concepts—lines that set their staff members up
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Riaz Khadem Add up all the time wasted doing things that aren’t important in your organization—by you, your direct reports and those reporting to you indirectly. You’ll probably end up with a large number. That number represents your organization’s misalignment. We once facilitated an executive session with a large company that included three levels of
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Robin Speculand, Founder & CEO, Bridges Business Consultancy Int The pressure to transform your business to integrate digital or to keep up with the competition or to sustain market share is placing the spotlight on organizations execution capabilities. An organization needs both the ability to craft the strategy and the skill to execute it but most
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Gary Morton, Author, Commanding Excellence: Inspiring Purpose, Passion, and Ingenuity through Leadership That Matters Inspiring human beings to achieve the truly extraordinary requires something more than a mission statement. Well-constructed mission statements define the field of play, what the organization does on those fields, and what is unique about the organization’s approach; but they are typically
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