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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

Managers can learn to be more strategic through understanding, exposure and challenge. Do whatever you can to explain not only the vision and the direction, but why those decisions are being made. (This doesn’t mean that tactical behaviors aren’t important, but they don’t differentiate the highly effective leaders from everyone else.).

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

In other words, Tirole does what modern academic economists do, only better than almost anyone else. He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. What are the aspects that distill the situation down to its very essence?’”.

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

And the Australians — always up for trying something wild and new — saw fit not only to endure a speech on the topic but four years of public-private partnerships to test it, refine it, smash it apart, remake it, and test it again. How do you know what to share, and what not to share, before you share?" Unsolvable problem.