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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. Much of the debt was paid off by licensing out characters just for toys and games. Image Credit: Hu Chen.

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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. The new materials—dubbed ovonics—were switches like transistors but worked better for many applications.

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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. After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations.