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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. It is through that shared understanding, training, and practice that the agility mindset is created. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business Review

At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper. ” Taking a stakeholder approach to strategic planning induces managers to raise their thinking to the organization level.

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To Lead a Digital Transformation, CEOs Must Prioritize

Harvard Business Review

Three ways to manage the digital transition are: Define where change is needed most: Digital technology affects every company differently, but it tends to create or destroy value in four critical areas of the organization: customer engagement, digital products and services, operational performance, and preparing for disruptive new business models.

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Build Your Team Like an Executive

Harvard Business Review

These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. When you ask leaders how they build a strong management team, the answers are revealing. Don't get me wrong.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash. Middle managers were confused about what to do, and many pushed their local agendas at the expense of the company's overall best interests. The team decided to adopt a simple-rules approach to the work ahead.

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Where Have All the Process Owners Gone?

Harvard Business Review

These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% There were few role models and little time for training. And they succeeded wildly.

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