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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. For this to happen companies need to invest in closing the Strategy Execution Skills Gap.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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How to Put Leadership Back into Strategy

LDRLB

This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. That question needs a compelling answer every day of a firm’s existence, an answer that’s relevant as the business evolves, and as markets and customers evolve. It takes the whole brain—intuition and analytic skills—to do it well.

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Vaunted valley VC, Eugene Kleiner said it well: “ The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed round.” Like most firms, my company weathered numerous market ups and downs. Many an entrepreneur has passed on the hors d’oeuvres, only to regret it later. Pay on time. I know this sounds counterintuitive.