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How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobson

With Horwath’s guidance, leaders will master the four dimensions of strategic fitness that contribute to executive performance: Strategy Fitness : Ability to understand and develop strategy, set direction, allocate resources, make decisions, and create competitive advantage. 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

With Horwath’s guidance, leaders will master the four dimensions of strategic fitness that contribute to executive performance: Strategy Fitness : Ability to understand and develop strategy, set direction, allocate resources, make decisions, and create competitive advantage. A company is only as good as its people.

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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

An old business standby, the SWOT Analysis , can be adapted to help you develop a recruitment strategy that uses your strengths to harness opportunities while reducing your vulnerability to those circumstances that make recruiting so challenging. Your aim is to develop a “strategic fit.” SWOT Analysis in HR.

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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

An old business standby, the SWOT Analysis , can be adapted to help you develop a recruitment strategy that uses your strengths to harness opportunities while reducing your vulnerability to those circumstances that make recruiting so challenging. Your aim is to develop a “strategic fit.” SWOT Analysis in HR.

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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

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. As a great organizational scholar, James March, once noted, “ Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry.”

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. Managers are trained, developed and evaluated to lead people in accordance with the human values top management espouses. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture.