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How to Shift Your Strategic Focus

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Remember that your team’s time and energy is a fixed asset. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. This can mean temporarily pausing some work to accelerate or add new projects. Shifting focus doesn’t mean adding new things to focus on.

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Making Time For Time

Lead Change Blog

Time is a non-renewable resource; a fixed asset. We must invest our time in these four dimensions of leadership: Invest In Time To Be Strategic. The heart of leadership is inspiration and influence; the words and actions that flow from our values express our character and motivation. Know When It Is Time For Action.

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Lead with a Coherent Strategy

Coaching Tip

Bringing on more fixed assets, instead of building market-leading capabilities. Emulating competitors and pursuing industry benchmarks rather than seeking differentiation. Hedging bets with multiple options, which reinforces complexity and raises costs. Leaders must compel the organization to choose.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

Previously strong barriers to entry have perished; fixed assets such as car fleets, hotels, bank branches, and landline infrastructure have become weaknesses. One way is by reducing dependence on fixed assets. Another is by taking underused assets and monetizing them.

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The Three Decisions You Need to Own

Harvard Business Review

At many companies the total cash investment in acquisitions, R&D, and fixed assets has not earned back its cost of capital after adjusting for the time lag in realizing incremental benefits. Decision making Leadership' That outcome reflects the wrong allocation and/or ineffective execution.

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In Beijing and Washington, Business as Usual

Harvard Business Review

Those among China's leadership elites who feared chaos in this transition will be relieved; those who had hoped that the events of the last year might offer the prospect of political reform will be disappointed. Will Zhang Gaoli, as overseer of the economy, continue China's fixation on fixed-asset investment?

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Say “No” to Innovation-in-General

Harvard Business Review

But as we accept that leadership comes in many forms, from managing crises to coaching employees, we need to do the same when it comes to innovation. It’s the continuous technological innovations that will exploit your fixed asset base. It’s a wide variety of things.