Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?” ” As you can imagine, the answer was often.

Entrepreneur 521

Entrepreneur Team P&L How To 521

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 53

Resources Industry System Strategy 53

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

What if concentrated market power of a few companies in an industry has made these companies more profitable than usual? However, it’s important to look closely at a company’s R&D spending, its R&D projects, and returns on such R&D. Corporate culture.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. And, since they were spread out across a geographically diverse area, they represented a large enough market to support renewed profitable growth. Only customers buy. It did this in a few ways.

Strategy 8

Strategy Team Discount ROIC 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

But the potential upside made mouths water as they considered the untapped market potential that had been neglected by the current owners, for whom the business unit was a side line. Hours earlier he had pored over documents and noticed a glaring omission in the financial projections. Most of the execs lobbed softballs at Mel.

EBITDA 8

EBITDA Consensus Participative Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up." Within three years, ALL's Brazilian rail operations had increased revenues by 50% and tripled EBITDA. Making better decisions.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Study Up – Make sure you take the time to study the details of your business or project plan for the year ahead. Synthesize Goals – Now that you’ve studied the business/project plan (see above), you need to reduce it to “bite sized&# pieces so it can be effectively communicated throughout the organization.

Leadership 418

Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418