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Strategy

How to keep the company vision strong

24 June 2008

The Ken Blanchard Company newsletter, Ignite!, for November 2007 has a great article “Keeping a Vision Strong through All Levels of Your Organization” which discusses why vision tends to dilute as you move down the organisational structure.
“In most organizations, when executives create a vision for the entire company, they believe it provides clarity, focus and [...]

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Does Your Strategy Have A Purpose?

19 June 2008

A the post "Does Your Business Strategy Have A Purpose?" on Idris Mootee’s blog Innovation Playground Idris makes the following point:
…“’purpose’ is bigger than ‘strategy’. Way much bigger. At best, strategy is just a number of smart ideas to take advantage of a market opportunity or re-configuration of the value chain. But purpose is different, [...]

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The What, Who, How and Why of Strategy…..

19 June 2008

Michael Watkins wrote an interesting post "Demystifying Strategy: The What, Who, How, and Why", he defines business strategy as:
"a set of guiding principles that, when communicated and adopted in the organization, generates a desired pattern of decision making….. A good strategy provides a clear roadmap, consisting of a set of guiding principles or rules, that [...]

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Separating strategy from planning conversations

11 May 2008

To be effective it’s necessary for leaders to separate strategy from planning, separating the why and what from the how. This is necessary simply because strategy and planning require two different thinking styles which are not complementary. As highlighted in a post on management-Issues:
“Ever been in a strategy meeting where everybody was focusing on the [...]

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Leaders relentlessly simplify…

27 February 2008

Simplicity is critical to the effective execution of an organisation’s strategy. Raj Sheelvant’s discusses the importance of simplicity in his post “Simplicity Minded Management“.  He refers to Ron Ashkenas’s HBR article “Simplicity Minded Management”, where the author provides the following checklist as a guide to help to reduce complexity:
Make simplification a goal, not a virtue [...]

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Research finds that future-focused leadership brings innovation…

15 December 2007

According to the article "Future-focused CEOs bring innovation" organisations whose leadership speak about future event and external activities are more innovative than those leaders who don’t.

‘By simply counting the number of future-oriented sentences in annual reports we can predict future innovation by the firm,’ said marketing Professor Rajesh Chandy of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson [...]

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The Three Journeys of Strategic Change

12 December 2007

The Anecdote Blog has an interesting post discussing "The Three Journeys" that organisations take as they seek to transform and implement their strategy.
 

 
Leader who are striving to bring about change and who are seeking to implement their strategies would do well to consider structuring their approach as the following three journeys:

The first journey is [...]

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Internal Vs. External Leadership Succession?

10 December 2007

Leadership development and leadership succession are of the most important concerns of effective leaders. One of the key decision which needs to made is what is an appropriate approach to leadership succession? Should leaders consider primarily internal or external candidates? The article "Internal Versus External Succession May Be Best Long-Term Talent Bet" provides some insight, [...]

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The gap between strategy and execution

2 June 2007

A study by OnPoint Consulting which surveyed the gap between strategy and execution. Of the leader’s surveyed 49% perceived a gap between their strategies and execution (the ability to make their strategies happen) and of these 64% didn’t have full confidence that their companies would be able to close the gap! Those companies that successfully close the strategy – [...]

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Book Review: Mavericks at Work

20 May 2007

 
Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win by William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre is a great book. It’s one of those business books that stand out from the crowd and not only in it’s cover design! The cover reflects nature of this book, bold, challenging and provocative. The authors describe the book as [...]

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