Company Leadership Operations Strategic Fit 
In the CEO Afterlife
APRIL 24, 2017
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.
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 21, 2016
The financial situation for Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company could not have been more dismal in 1998. The company had chalked up losses in seven of the past eight years, and it was now paying a billion dollars annually just to service its $19-billion debt. Integrate Strategy and Leadership. Learn to Lead Strategically.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 12, 2014
The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. How do they do it? Let’s start with what doesn’t work.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2015
Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co.
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