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How to Connect Strategy and Execution

Six Disciplines

Bright minds spend considerable time and energy drawing up ambitious plans for things like market share growth and increased revenue generation — only to watch staff put out fires all day rather than work on the strategy which will prevent most fires in the first place. They just don’t do it.”.

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Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?

Harvard Business Review

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. He’d been an aide to the mayor of Philadelphia at the time and knew well how much time city workers spent documenting and following up on complaints about broken lights.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace. Workplace demographics paint a startling picture: Almost 40 percent of the U.S. workforce is between 45 and 64.

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The Future Economy Project

Harvard Business Review

The urgent challenge now is to drive the majority of businesses to take measures that will save energy and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Firms as diverse as Walmart and KKR are finding that reducing energy use and embracing renewable energy can be immediately profitable. Search and explore the documents below.

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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Harvard Business Review

Xerox has been navigating the shift to digital documents for years, and WM is facing an existential threat. Xerox advises companies on how to save money on document handling, and holds a sizable 48 percent market share in the broadly defined, and surprisingly large, $7.78 But at the core, what Xerox is offering is less total printing.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

.” In those extreme cases, you should recognize that you won’t be able to fix the problem and begin to explore more serious responses. Document everything. If you conclude that you really need to fire the person, you must first document their offenses and any response you’ve offered so far.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Inside you’ll find scenarios, case studies, tips, templates, and checklists that will help you capture and retain your company’s intellectual capital as Baby Boomers leave the workplace.

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