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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

With this in mind, they offer a new standard of performance defined by nine key strategies in three areas—growth, operation, and organization. Strategy #1: Do Good, Grow Beyond. Strategy #2: Stream It, Don’t Ship It. Today’s leading-edge companies are taking complete ownership of outcomes and experiences for customers.

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Get inspired by these three pioneering, sustainable companies

Chartered Management Institute

As a result, a more sustainable, ethical operational approach is now just good business sense; minimising the risks of climate change to the business, meeting stakeholder and investor needs, and increasing consumer appeal. Companies such as the Ecology Building Society for example demonstrate how much of a difference a small company can make.

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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

The seemingly more attractive (and logical) option is to do more and more – the theory being the more markets, products, and businesses a company engages in, the better the results. The Campbell Soup Company has been doing more and more for decades. Nike began as a shoe company. Nike is a Do Less Better company.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

A recent conversation with a community bank CEO focused on his vision for the company. For example, a manager might delay travel or defer other expenses in the last weeks of a quarter to create the appearance of lower operating costs, thus a better bottom line. Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Organization’s Culture

CO2

Other companies, as I have witnessed, value consistency of service. In both of the cases I’ve outlined here, the organization’s culture usually dictates its strategy. When it doesn’t (when strategy isn’t shaped by culture), customers and employees tend to get thrown by the bull. So, what is your culture?

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A System For Rapid Realignment

Tim Milburn

Our prescription for rapid realignment has the following steps: Align the leadership team. Align the Leadership Team. The first step toward rapid realignment is to get leadership team members aligned with The Main Thing of the enterprise and its strategy. Create an online alignment portal. A chat room.

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Walmart Won’t Stay on Top If Its Strategy Is “Copy Amazon”

Harvard Business Review

Walmart’s recent change to free two-day shipping for online orders, no membership required, is the latest in a series of moves the company has made to fight Amazon and grow its e-commerce business. For all these reasons, Prime has been described by CEO Jeff Bezos as one of the company’s three strategic pillars.