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How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobson

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. A company is only as good as its people.

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How To Move From Being Tactical To Being Truly Strategic

Eric Jacobson

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. A company is only as good as its people.

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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later. Fifteen years later, Nissan under Ghosn’s strategy and leadership was indeed back on its feet. Nissan’s experience reminds us that firms with good strategy but weak leadership can remain rudderless.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

And the engineers and developers working on the product are too close to it or have a much higher tolerance for complexity than the customer will. Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. Corporate indecision and misalignment of strategic objectives let promising products fall by the wayside. Fix or kill?