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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

Nardelli’s background and personality were a perfect fit for that challenge and he delivered some of the company’s most profitable years. But with the infrastructure and discipline in place, the company needed a leader who could drive innovation-based growth. Ballmer took over, and excelled at, a Box 2 challenge.

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Why Innovators Should Study the Rise and Fall of the Venetian Empire

Harvard Business Review

From the thirteenth century on, the Arsenal nurtured creativity and spurred innovation and entrepreneurship in the construction of its galleys. Merchants and traders played the game of incremental innovation by focusing on efficiency and optimization. What’s the lesson for entrepreneurs and innovators today?

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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

Learn to Lead Strategically. Ensure Strategic Fit. Arrange a strong match between the strategic challenges of a managerial position and the individual with the leadership skills to fill it. Convey Strategic Intent. Reprinted by permission of Wharton Digital Press. About the Authors.

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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.