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How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobson

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential.

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How To Move From Being Tactical To Being Truly Strategic

Eric Jacobson

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential.

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Assess Your CEO’s Strategic Fit Over Time

Harvard Business Review

In the late 1990’s, Home Depot’s rapid growth had outpaced its corporate infrastructure and was hiding serious cost management challenges. Their board hired Robert Nardelli from GE to quickly install the organizational foundation necessary to continue the company’s growth and better manage costs. Boards Leadership Strategy'

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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

Not that Nissan’s management had not been trying to make the right decisions to staunch the losses. It required an individual who could both think and act strategically, a person who brought a strong sense for strategy and a personal capacity to lead its execution. Learn to Lead Strategically. Ensure Strategic Fit.

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. So how are leading-edge companies evaluating the benefits and risks of rapidly evolving AI crime-fighting and risk management?

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For Growth, New Ideas Aren't Enough

Harvard Business Review

There it was again in the Wall Street Journal on August 29: a beloved and uplifting, but unfortunately not effective, approach to driving growth through innovation. The idea is that companies need to encourage innovation from everyone and at every level in the organization. Trainers are brought in to teach everyone to be an innovator.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.