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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap

Strategy Driven

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. Ensure Strategic Fit. Convey Strategic Intent. Renault agreed to infuse $5.4

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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. This skill is borrowed from couples’ therapy and allows each party to be heard and understood, without having to necessarily agreeing to what is heard and understood.

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Microsoft’s Next CEO: How the Board Can Get It Right

Harvard Business Review

All have served at or near the pinnacle of company power, and they now bring that experience to judging who has the requisite skill-set to lead the world’s largest software maker in a fast-morphing market. Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate, and Charles H. Noski, former CFO of Bank of America.

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