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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Nissan’s market share in Japan had stalled at just 16 percent, it was faring little better abroad, and losses were mounting everywhere.

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Corporate Writing Doesn’t Have to Sound Like It’s Written by Committee

Harvard Business Review

.” – Marketing staff, technology/telecom company. ” – Marketing manager, technology/telecom company. ” – Marketing supervisor, advertising/marketing agency. “The desire for management to include pet phrases or sayings gets in the way of clear communication.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 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. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?