In the CEO Afterlife
APRIL 24, 2017
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. Farsightedness is essential to effective leadership.
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 21, 2016
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. Nissan’s market share in Japan had stalled at just 16 percent, it was faring little better abroad, and losses were mounting everywhere.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2015
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. As a great organizational scholar, James March, once noted, “ Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry.”
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. Whole Foods Market’s purpose is to promote healthier eating. It must be deeper than only making money for shareholders and managers.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 19, 2015
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?
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