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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. It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential.

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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. It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential.

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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

Learn to Lead Strategically. Pursue directed learning, one-on-one coaching, and instructive experience to develop an integrated understanding of strategy and leadership. Ensure Strategic Fit. Master the elements of strategy and leadership both separately as a combined whole. About the Authors.

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Why Innovators Should Study the Rise and Fall of the Venetian Empire

Harvard Business Review

From the thirteenth century on, the Arsenal nurtured creativity and spurred innovation and entrepreneurship in the construction of its galleys. This location, consisting of a series of islands in a marshy lagoon, also pushed it to develop a (then unusual) trading and moneylending economy, since there was little land to support agriculture.

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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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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

But determining whether AI crime-fighting solutions are a good strategic fit for a company depends on whether the benefits outweigh the risks that accompany them. Below, we explain some of the steps they’re taking: Evaluating the strategic fit. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS. Assessing and mitigating internal risks.

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For Growth, New Ideas Aren't Enough

Harvard Business Review

There it was again in the Wall Street Journal on August 29: a beloved and uplifting, but unfortunately not effective, approach to driving growth through innovation. The idea is that companies need to encourage innovation from everyone and at every level in the organization. Trainers are brought in to teach everyone to be an innovator.