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A Strategy Story That Works

Great Leadership By Dan

How we’re going to get there (a strategy story) Every leader, regardless of what functional discipline they represent, needs to be able to tell those four stories. Here’s an example of #4 – a strategy story. One strategy that’s worked for a lot of out-classed teams is this – play a full-court press the entire game.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Every university offering a business degree has on their faculty a professor teaching strategy but almost none have a professor teaching its execution. This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value.

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3 Reasons Why Your Company’s “Superhero” Leadership Strategy Isn’t Working

Great Leadership By Dan

So you might be surprised when I say that many companies including yours are following a Superhero leadership strategy. A Superhero strategy is a leadership strategy in which an organization focuses most of its time and energy on developing a small, exclusive group of people who are destined for major roles in the company.

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Leading Successfully… Start with the Right Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

The exact nomenclature for this last set of responsibilities can vary from organization to organization, but what we are talking about is finding the right strategy. Finding the right strategy can be the difference between a leader’s success and failure. And that is what strategy is all about. So why is this so hard?

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How Nonprofit Leaders Can Use Strategy and Technology to Enhance Organization’s Performance

Great Leadership By Dan

Third, tradition – not strategy – is the master of most non-profits. To win, it requires leadership that can craft and execute strategy: skillful, creative, and disciplined use of resources to achieve their objectives. Strategy doesn’t just happen. Strategy-driven vs. tradition-driven governance.

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How to Measure the Impact of Your High Potential Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

I’d say metrics are an important part of a high potential strategy, but just don’t waste your time measuring meaningless minutia or conducting complicated ROI studies that are impossible to prove. Number of “key positions” (usually succession planning positions). Number of HiPos (high potentials) ready to fill those positions.

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The Most Important Ingredient to Successful Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

I have done countless speeches on strategy over the years at companies, conferences, and business schools. No great leader succeeds without a great strategy. Often the strategy is thoughtfully forged. Strategy, your plan to compete, is all about making the right bets to achieve your goals. Do you have your answer yet?