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How to Shift Your Strategic Focus

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Market and organizational changes can require you to shift your strategic focus. Market and organizational changes can require you to shift your focus. Remember that your team’s time and energy is a fixed asset. Remember that your team’s time and energy is a fixed asset.

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6 Smart Investment Decisions To Make As An Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

A vast majority of entrepreneurs, 80% to be precise, fund their enterprises out of pocket, and managing cash flow is a major challenge as most have no prior business cash flow education. Investing in fixed assets. A fixed asset is an asset acquired to liquidate at a later period. Investing in marketing.

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Lead with a Coherent Strategy

Coaching Tip

By Guest Authors from Booz & Company : Partner, Paul Leinwand and Managing Director, Cesare Mainardi . As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. . Way to play: They make a deliberate choice about how to add value in the market – e.g., as a value player, an experience provider, an aggregator, etc. .

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Retailers Beware: Markets Punish Stores with Too Much Inventory

Harvard Business Review

It is derived by adjusting for changes in gross margin, capital intensity (fixed assets as a proportion of total assets), and positively for sales surprise (the degree to which actual sales exceeds or falls short of forecast). Consider the following example that Vishal Gaur of Cornell, my frequent co-author, shared with me.

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

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. public market capitalization over this period. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

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Resolution 2011: Make Your Strategy Coherent

Harvard Business Review

Companies that demonstrate strategic coherence — think Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola — earn a market premium in terms of higher earnings and greater shareholder value. Start from the opposite direction: Find an attractive market that values what you do best! There's no doubt about it; numbers don't lie.