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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 had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Integrate Strategy and Leadership.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Employee trust in management and commitment to the company have been in decline for decades. Only a minority of companies have managed to buck this decline and have built companies worthy of the human spirit. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. How do they do it? Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. Corporate indecision and misalignment of strategic objectives let promising products fall by the wayside. billion in 2014. Fix or kill? What happened? Fix or kill?