Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Strategy involves completion of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them.” The problem is following a plan so closely without responding to events that you will “lead the company efficiently in the wrong direction.” In a sense, strategy creates risk.
Marshall Goldsmith
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
It's a different ball game if you attach a real number to that goal - a number they are aware of. If I faltered, I always told myself, "Well, I can get a credit toward my goal, and it only takes me 10 minutes." Without that measurable goal, I was much more likely to blow it off. They also get the message that you care.
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Marshall Goldsmith
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Their commitment to their goals and beliefs allows them to view their reality through rose-tinted glasses and happily prevail over almost any hardship. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. It's the reason successful people won't buckle or waver when times get tough. Life is good.
Eric Jacobson
MAY 7, 2018
For instance, while buyers most want to talk about : What my company is trying to achieve with the purchase The reasons my company needs to make the purchase My company’s overall goals … sellers most want to talk about : Pricing How the product/service works (a product demo) So, if you sell, you need to read this book.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 22, 2012
Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. As an idea, strategic intent is about setting a bold and ambitious goal, out of all proportion to a firm's current resources and capabilities.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Goals and vision are shared as carefully curated documents, or through great speeches created by well-oiled communications machines. In such scenarios the "I don't have the right answers for you, but let's march ahead and discover how can we get to our goals faster" articulation is more powerful than rhetoric.
Marshall Goldsmith
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Keith Ferrazzi – Addresses behaviors that block the achievement of strategic goals. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’. World authority on project management.
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