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The Disconnect Between Strategy And Execution

Six Disciplines

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy. Find out more today.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2023

Leading Blog

Blog Post ) Going on Offense : A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation by Behnam Tabrizi (Ideapress Publishing, 2023) Going on Offense is a powerful resource for anyone looking to transform their organization and their people into a perpetual innovator. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. As with the other measures, what is important varies by industry.

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How CMOs Can Work with CIOs to Gain Customer Insight

Harvard Business Review

But given that today's CMO is often the main connection between the consumer and the company, a strong relationship with the CIO can allow her to leverage technology to better understand those customers. It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

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On Undo's Undue Importance

Harvard Business Review

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product. In 1986, Lotus Development Corporation announced the latest version of its (at the time) wildly popular 1-2-3 spreadsheet, one that now sported a spiffy new "undo" feature.

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Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees

Harvard Business Review

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. ” “We’re working on the most advanced technology.” They can: Mastery: Help people develop deep skills.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?