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What strategy is (and what it isn’t):

Strategy Driven

His 2013 book, Strategy: A History, which took 40 years to write, is the best book ever written outlining the entire history of the development of strategy. Strategy is about the “how.” A policy may have an implementation strategy behind it. They’re prescriptions for the way things might operate in an ideal world.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. The first type is known as tactical performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. Overdoing Tactical Performance.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Economic performance for organizations whose CIOs were part of the overall development of strategy outpaced that of other organizations by a scale of two to one as discovered in our Economist and HBR studies. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. Define Your Strategy.

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“Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

The insights and the workshops have since influenced how Mars assesses risks and opportunities and develops strategy. This means identifying risks and opportunities early enough to allow the company to adapt its strategy or in extreme cases, change it. Simply and clearly put, CI is a perspective on changing market conditions.

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You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It

Harvard Business Review

It’s how they develop and grow (just as children do, first imitating their parents, then their peers). In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

And Its Execution Gap Closer Round-Up Execution Gap Closer #1: Netflix Netflix received considerable media attention this year as it demonstrated its ability to successfully execute its strategy to provide video over the Internet. Barnes & Noble appears to be doing a lot of the right things.

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Eight Ways to Communicate Your Strategy More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

The purpose is to encourage their teams to develop department-specific responses, and to generate new ideas and new behaviors based on what they've learned. It isn't enough to explain the connection between your company's purpose and its strategy — and between that strategy and its execution — once.