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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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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

Another client introduced a connected product that required the user to go through a long set up process, including setting a clock. 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.