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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later. Fifteen years later, Nissan under Ghosn’s strategy and leadership was indeed back on its feet. Nissan’s experience reminds us that firms with good strategy but weak leadership can remain rudderless.

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How Microsoft Avoided the Peter Principle with Nadella

Harvard Business Review

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. Leadership Microsoft Succession planning' His challenges will be enormous. And that question is likely to be answered in the affirmative if the directors have managed to avoid the Peter Principle.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

And the engineers and developers working on the product are too close to it or have a much higher tolerance for complexity than the customer will. Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. The answer is usually that key decision-makers haven’t actually used the product. Fix or kill? Fix or kill?