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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

In short, he had warned, the company could never recover if it continued doing business the same old way. 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.

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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. Here learn-by-doing can be essential, especially in acquiring an experience-informed ability to work with the directors, investors, analysts, and reporters. His challenges will be enormous.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

If your project displays any of these signs, it’s time to radically change what you’re doing or pull the plug. People have little interest in smart connected devices in and of themselves, but the Nest Thermostat does things people do care about: saving money, being comfortable, reducing energy waste. billion in 2014.