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0616 | Donald Sull & Kathleen Eisenhardt

LDRLB

Donald Sull is a global expert on strategy and execution in turbulent markets. He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Ascherman Professor of Strategy at Stanford, a highly cited author, and the co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Kathleen Eisenhardt is the S.

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Weekly Round-Up: Measuring Culture in Leading Companies, Brand Strategy for Leaders, Improving Employee Engagement & Culture, Communicating with Global Employees, Creating a Culture of Innovation

leaderCommunicator

To survive and thrive in today’s market, a healthy corporate culture is more important than ever.

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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. Don’t treat your stated strategy as a given if it’s not. 1] Defined in HBR’s Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It (Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull, MARCH 2015).

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Stop Distinguishing Between Execution and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It’s impossible to have a good strategy poorly executed. That’s because execution actually is strategy – trying to separate the two only leads to confusion. And no one can describe “strategy execution” in a way that does not conflict with “strategy.” Emphasis added].

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris: Week of 11/19/12

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities Around the World Yves Doz and Keeley Wilson Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition (Second Edition) Dennis N.

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Business Competition Has Not Gotten Fiercer

Harvard Business Review

Puzzling anecdotes abound: Microsoft has missed out on a series of new products in the past decade, yet as Don Sull points out , it continues to be highly profitable. A close look at a number of HBR articles will show authors expressing frustration that companies are taking their time in implementing great new management ideas.

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Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

It is nearly impossible to translate — let alone execute – a strategy that you don’t understand. Isn’t that exactly what a strategy should do — help teams and leaders decide the right thing to do in the face of new threats and opportunities? As a result, most leaders score a C- in strategy comprehension.