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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. 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.

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Status Quophiles and Quophobes

Mills Scofield

I : Wow, cool, and that’s going to let us help so many more customers and markets than we can now! SQ : Nice idea, but we have to recognize the sunk costs of our existing fixed assets. I : That would work, and we can diversify our coating suppliers to assure quality and price.

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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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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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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. public market capitalization over this period. The differences were dramatic. As noted earlier, if all public U.S.