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How to Shift Your Strategic Focus

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

This can mean temporarily pausing some work to accelerate or add new projects. 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. Market and organizational changes can require you to shift your focus.

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Say “No” to Innovation-in-General

Harvard Business Review

The subject was intrapreneurship and it seemed like the organizers had collected an all-star panel; two Googlers, an early Facebooker, one of the recent additions to the Paypal team, and one of the IBM leads on the Watson project. Yes, all of the panelists were speaking broadly on innovative projects. Yes all three are innovative.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

These choices historically conferred advantage – first-mover, scale – but asset-based scale advantages have diminished in recent years, thanks to technology, cheap information, and outsourcing. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them.