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How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobson

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the book, Strategic.

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How To Move From Being Tactical To Being Truly Strategic

Eric Jacobson

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the new book, Strategic.

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What Is a Recruitment SWOT Analysis?

ExactHire - Leadership

The Great Resignation, skills gap and increasing recruitment costs may have you wondering how you can improve your talent acquisition strategy. They may include an influx of recent graduates, lack of candidates with the necessary skills or widespread crises such as the pandemic. Your aim is to develop a “strategic fit.”

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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 required an individual who could both think and act strategically, a person who brought a strong sense for strategy and a personal capacity to lead its execution. Ensure Strategic Fit. Convey Strategic Intent.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. Lilly trains its alliance managers to look at risk as the precursor to conflict, as parties typically engage in conflict as a method of reducing or controlling alliance risk.

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The Secrets to Building a Lucky Network

Harvard Business Review

He claims he won the "ovarian lottery" by being born at the right time and in a country where his skill set allowed him to amass great wealth. After all, if he were on a desert island without a capital market, the value of his skill goes nearly to zero. Warren Buffett has famously credited most of his success to Luck. So, Luck matters.

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How Microsoft Avoided the Peter Principle with Nadella

Harvard Business Review

And that question is likely to be answered in the affirmative if the directors have managed to avoid the Peter Principle. Great at mid-level, the managers were not game-ready for the next level. Or consider managed-health care provider Humana’s decision in 2013 to recruit an outsider as its next chief executive.

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