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How to Employ Leadership Fundamentals…or Falter

Strategy Driven

While addressing the sacred cow, the company failed miserably to articulate its strategy and gain support for its direction. Boni is Managing Principal at Kedgeway, Inc and author of ALL HANDS ON DECK: Navigating Your Team Through Crises, Getting Your Organization Unstuck and Emerging Victorious (Career Press, 2015). Confusion reigned.

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. The continent’s long-term potential remains attractive, but a company’s success in the current environment will depend on its strategy.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business Review

Using the same 1 – 100 scale ask yourself: How well does our organization support the achievement of our strategy? If your organization is incapable of delivering its strategy, the strategy is effectively worthless and your company’s purpose will go more or less unfulfilled. How does your company score?

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Big-Box Retailers Have Two Options If They Want to Survive

Harvard Business Review

As a result, big box retail must shift its strategy — from competing on access and selection to staging big experiences and providing big discounts. Mintel’s 2015 American Lifestyles report projects that vacations, dining out, and other experiential categories will drive the growth in total consumer spending.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) At a minimum, as is happening to GE now, it forces a company to go through a review of its strategy. (At Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago.

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5 Ways to Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

In an ongoing global survey of senior executives , more than half of the respondents said they didn’t think their company had a winning strategy, and two-thirds said they didn’t think their organization had the right capabilities to execute its strategy. Lego cut these businesses.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

A new study from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that, according to the 2015 US government’s definition of disability , a significant portion of the white-collar workforce has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity: 30% of a nationally representative survey of 3,570 white-collar employees.