Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. Becoming a strategic leader is an acquired capacity that can, in our view, be mastered by managers at all levels.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. And that question is likely to be answered in the affirmative if the directors have managed to avoid the Peter Principle. Great at mid-level, the managers were not game-ready for the next level.

CEO 8

CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

And the engineers and developers working on the product are too close to it or have a much higher tolerance for complexity than the customer will. Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. No innovation remains innovative for long. Fix or kill? The result: you are always a year or two behind the market.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8