Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Back in my own days as an executive, I was hugely influenced by a book called The Discipline of Market Leaders. The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. How do things actually get done?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. The world is changing too rapidly. What would happen?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. But how is this done? Duke and James D.

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