In the CEO Afterlife
APRIL 24, 2017
What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. That makes an organization operationally and strategically stronger. Farsightedness is essential to effective leadership. The glue that binds leadership, strategy, and execution is people—at every level of the organization.
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 21, 2016
billion into Nissan, but in return it required more than 36 percent of the company’s ownership and a commitment from Nissan to appoint Renault executive Carlos Ghosn as Nissan’s chief operating officer. Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 12, 2014
The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2015
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. 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. Managers whose leadership is inconsistent with corporate purpose and values are asked to leave, though even this last act is done with caring. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture.
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