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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

With this in mind, they offer a new standard of performance defined by nine key strategies in three areas—growth, operation, and organization. Strategy #1: Do Good, Grow Beyond. Strategy #2: Stream It, Don’t Ship It. Operating Beyond: Rethink How Their Companies Operate. Strategy #4: Engineer an Ecosystem.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

With a similar theme, Michael Harris and Bill Taylor’s Harvard Business Review article, “ Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business ” said, “A company can easily lose sight of its strategy and instead focus strictly on the metrics that are meant to represent it.” . Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect.

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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

The seemingly more attractive (and logical) option is to do more and more – the theory being the more markets, products, and businesses a company engages in, the better the results. What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. Strategy tells you what not to do. This is not true.

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Is The Gig Economy Set To Disrupt The Legal Profession?

The Horizons Tracker

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. The study reveals that there are around 100 online platforms operating in the country for lawyers and other legal professionals to offer their services. Disrupting the market.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Organization’s Culture

CO2

Their aggressive posture led to significant financial troubles in the market downturn of 2008; in bull markets, though, they tend to fare far better. In both of the cases I’ve outlined here, the organization’s culture usually dictates its strategy. That culture can help and it can hurt. So, what is your culture?

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Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Therefore, the ability to manage operation and the capacity to inspire employees is no longer enough. Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. To do that, he would need to integrate operations at a scale no one had thought possible.

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Walmart Won’t Stay on Top If Its Strategy Is “Copy Amazon”

Harvard Business Review

Now, in some cases, it can often lower prices than Amazon because Jet.com’s operating model doesn’t rely on holding inventory. But the company has elected to make neither its new pricing capabilities nor its long-standing low prices part of its marketing efforts for e-commerce.