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How to Shift Your Strategic Focus

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Remember that your team’s time and energy is a fixed asset. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. This can mean temporarily pausing some work to accelerate or add new projects. Shifting focus doesn’t mean adding new things to focus on.

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Making Time For Time

Lead Change Blog

Time is a non-renewable resource; a fixed asset. We must invest our time in these four dimensions of leadership: Invest In Time To Be Strategic. The heart of leadership is inspiration and influence; the words and actions that flow from our values express our character and motivation. Know When It Is Time For Action.

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Lead with a Coherent Strategy

Coaching Tip

By Guest Authors from Booz & Company : Partner, Paul Leinwand and Managing Director, Cesare Mainardi . Bringing on more fixed assets, instead of building market-leading capabilities. Emulating competitors and pursuing industry benchmarks rather than seeking differentiation.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

These choices historically conferred advantage – first-mover, scale – but asset-based scale advantages have diminished in recent years, thanks to technology, cheap information, and outsourcing. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them.

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The Three Decisions You Need to Own

Harvard Business Review

At many companies the total cash investment in acquisitions, R&D, and fixed assets has not earned back its cost of capital after adjusting for the time lag in realizing incremental benefits. Decision making Leadership' That outcome reflects the wrong allocation and/or ineffective execution.

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Say “No” to Innovation-in-General

Harvard Business Review

Because of the vast space between these, the astute manager shouldn’t simply aspire to innovation in general. Without differentiating between things like sustaining and disruptive innovations, the conversation never directs managers to the nitty-gritty details where new products and services live or die.

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In Beijing and Washington, Business as Usual

Harvard Business Review

We have just witnessed what journalists too easily have called China's "once-in-a-decade" transition--this despite the minor detail that the People's Republic of China had managed exactly one routinized transition of power in its first sixty-two years. There have been many more coups d'état than peaceful transitions.)