article thumbnail

How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobson

It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar.

How To 117
article thumbnail

How To Move From Being Tactical To Being Truly Strategic

Eric Jacobson

It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential. Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar.

Tactics 73
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. It required an individual who could both think and act strategically, a person who brought a strong sense for strategy and a personal capacity to lead its execution. Learn to Lead Strategically. Ensure Strategic Fit.

article thumbnail

The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. So how are leading-edge companies evaluating the benefits and risks of rapidly evolving AI crime-fighting and risk management?

article thumbnail

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. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context.

article thumbnail

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

Harvard Business Review

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How do they do it? Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

article thumbnail

The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. Lilly trains its alliance managers to look at risk as the precursor to conflict, as parties typically engage in conflict as a method of reducing or controlling alliance risk.