In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. Its strategy to get out ahead of the competition rested on the innovative, hard, vacuum-sealed packaging its then-parent company, Jacob Suchard, was using in Europe at the time. Nabob, you’re a feisty fella. That number increased to 40%.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2015

While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Boni is Managing Principal at Kedgeway, Inc and author of ALL HANDS ON DECK: Navigating Your Team Through Crises, Getting Your Organization Unstuck and Emerging Victorious (Career Press, 2015). Confusion reigned.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

And that’s precisely what gets us in trouble as we hit career transitions that call for new and different ways of leading. In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

We believe that in business as in basketball, understanding what bracket you're competing in is key to shaping your competitive strategy and tactics. For a powerful example of how this understanding can shape strategy, consider the electric razor industry. Braun simplified its merchandising and brand strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology. One way is to assess the CEO’s fit on two key dimensions where the CEO’s role and influence are distinct: Strategy and Change. Boards Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. And they are more likely to have their ideas endorsed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. The three principles that emerged from that event guided decision-making throughout the organization, giving IBM's huge, globally dispersed workforce the discipline necessary to execute the company's new strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

They struggle with everything from its creation to its strategy to its editorial content, and even the best places to publish and share it effectively. What are these poor consumers going to do if every brand follows the Vaynerchuk strategy of tripling down? Will this push consumers to the breaking point? In a word: no.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It’s natural to feel slightly paranoid, says John Lees, UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code. Here are some strategies to employ. If you were fired for “failure to achieve objectives,” your best strategy is “absolute searing honesty,” says Lees. Understand what happened.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The LG India team outdid both domestic and foreign rivals in tailoring its strategies and operations to the Indian market. Given his career-long tenure with LG, Kim enjoyed an exceptionally high degree of trust and therefore autonomy from Seoul. That's only part of the story, though.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

The arc of history is long—the length of a career, rather than a marketing campaign. Its mission drove its strategy , not the other way around. And yet despite the differences, there are several lessons that marketers can learn from successful social movements. First, successful movements start by attacking perceptions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. An effective policy strategy for small businesses needs to focus on the unique needs these companies have. But these things are not enough.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Promise Zones Initiative , which awarded over $30 million last year to grantees to achieve objectives such as developing a complete continuum of cradle-to-career strategies and breaking down silos between community agencies. Proactive and population-based.

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