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Create a Strategy for Creating a Strategy

Lead Change Blog

In the competitive marketplace, a leader has the challenge to lead an organization to help it achieve their goals. Every company is competing for market shares, customers, and suppliers. As Peter Drucker said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” The purpose of strategy is to create a competitive advantage.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Leaders Can Turn Creativity into a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. This “VUCA” environment rewards innovation but it also punishes failure more harshly.

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Strategic Insight is Not on the CEO Radar

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, Peter Drucker wrote in The Economist that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society. In this society, a company's competitive advantage will come from an historically underdeveloped asset: the ability to capture and apply insights from diverse fields.". It's a compelling argument.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Posing that question continues to be a powerful way to catalyze important strategic conversations.

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3 Traps That Block Corporate Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are amassing market share and capitalization, but only a few brick-and-mortar corporations (think Apple, Nissan, and HCL Technologies) have been able to change fast enough to catch up with their rivals. The Leadership Trap.

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3 Traps That Block Corporate Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are amassing market share and capitalization, but only a few brick-and-mortar corporations (think Apple, Nissan, and HCL Technologies) have been able to change fast enough to catch up with their rivals. The Leadership Trap.