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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. 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.

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How Microsoft Avoided the Peter Principle with Nadella

Harvard Business Review

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. In one of the most widely scrutinized CEO successions ever, Microsoft directors selected insider Satya Nadella to run the company, only their third CEO pick in the firm’s nearly 40-year history.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

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.