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How Leaders Become Strategists

Skip Prichard

As it turns out, what passes for strategy in many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is ultimately just a mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. To develop a strategy, one has to look at the competition and our team and figure out the difficulties and barriers to “winning the game.”

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

They mostly operate out of grocery and drugstore pharmacies, others are employed in hospitals or in clinical settings. To qualify, pharmacists need a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and must be licensed. Their work responsibilities include web design database development as well as designing a company’s IT approaches and strategies.

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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. However, leaders must always ask themselves whether their differentiating capabilities are still relevant.

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3 Questions to Get the Most Out of Your Company’s Data

Harvard Business Review

“This isn’t possible in print, broadcast, or traditional films, which may be why the media industry is such a dysfunctional place,” Peretti has said. They’re important because they’re allowing businesses to develop new business models that better serve customers. Consider entertainment.

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Remembering a Leader in Green Energy

Coaching Tip

Companies around the world license his patents. "It Mr. Ovshinsky used the same basic insight decades later to produce flexible photovoltaic materials, printing them on film on a machine the length of a football field. and General Motors for which he developed the battery that powered the EV1, GM's electric car.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. But these forms of external turbulence tend to be the trigger of free fall, not the cause.

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How to Manage Multiple Partnerships

Harvard Business Review

Microsoft and Intel, as is well known, have long sought alternatives to their being fused at the hip — Microsoft seeking alternative chip platforms for its software, and Intel supporting additional operating systems. Advanced practitioners of partnership strategies have developed approaches that work for them and may work for you.