Mission, Vision, Core Values
Harvard Business Review: How will You Measure Your Life
Harvard professor and best-selling author, Clayton Christensen, challenged his graduating students with three simple questions to examine, measure, and improve their lives after Harvard: (1) How can I be sure that I’ll be happy in my career? (2) how can I be sure that...
Harvard Business Review: Building Your Company’s Vision
Companies that enjoy enduring success have a core purpose and core values that remain fixed while their strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.
Fast Company: Michael Porter’s Big Ideas
The world's most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you've got to make time for strategy.
Harvard Business Review: How will You Measure Your Life
Harvard professor and best-selling author, Clayton Christensen, challenged his graduating students with three simple questions to examine, measure, and improve their lives after Harvard: (1) How can I be sure that I’ll be happy in my career? (2) how can I be sure that...
Harvard Business Review: Building Your Company’s Vision
Companies that enjoy enduring success have a core purpose and core values that remain fixed while their strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.
Fast Company: Michael Porter’s Big Ideas
The world's most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you've got to make time for strategy.
Pre-Planning Strategy
Gazelles: A Formula for Economic Growth
Everyone agrees that an excellent education system, cutting-edge research and development efforts, a thriving export market, and global competitiveness are critical ingredients for any thriving economy. And while some countries are winning in these areas, the U.S. is...
The Table Group: Death by Meeting
Bad meetings are not inevitable. There is nothing inherently boring or unproductive about meetings. They are the activity at the center of every organization, and should therefore be both interesting and relevant in the lives of participants. If we can just turn...
Wharton: Three Reasons Why Good Strategies Fail: Execution, Execution…
From Vivendi to Webvan, the shortcomings of a bad strategy are usually painfully obvious — at least in retrospect. But good strategies fail too, and when that happens, it’s often harder to pinpoint the reasons. Yet despite the obvious importance of good planning and...
Harvard Business Review: Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy
Strategies are supposed to be driven by numbers and extensive analysis and uncontaminated by bias, judgment, or opinion. The larger the spreadsheets, the more confident an organization is in its process. All those numbers, all those analyses, feel scientific, and in...
Insurance Thought Leadership: What is Your 2016 Playbook for Growth?
Doubling down on what worked in the past isn't enough. You need digital sales growth, and that means a new set of tools.
Development / Execution
Harvard Business Review: The Theory of the Business
Not in a very long time—not, perhaps, since the late 1940s or early 1950s—have there been as many new major management techniques as there are today: downsizing, out-sourcing, total quality management, economic value analysis, benchmarking, reengineering. Each is a...
Leader Communication: Generating Buy-in
Walton describes “buy-in” as getting understanding, commitment and action from others in support of a person, idea, proposal, product, service or organization. He explains that buy-in is the essential emotional ingredient needed for any collaborative effort to be...
Harvard Business Review: The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
A brilliant strategy, blockbuster product, or breakthrough technology can put you on the competitive map, but only solid execution can keep you there. You have to be able to deliver on your intent. Unfortunately, the majority of companies aren’t very good at it, by...
Management
Calvin London: Strategic Planning for Business Excellence
Take the right road to reach your destination.
Information Week: The Rise of Shadow IT
When the business wants change so much that it's willing to go rogue on IT, is it misinformed, or justified? Consider this advice, CIOs.
Harvard Business Review: Mastering the Management System
Not long after its successful IPO, the Conner Corporation (not its real name) began to lose its way. The company’s senior executives continued their practice of holding monthly one-day management meetings, but their focus drifted.
Measurement
Automating Benefits Management for Strategic Success
The world's most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you've got to make time for strategy.
Strategic Thinking
INC: 6 habits of True Strategic Thinkers
In the beginning, there was just you and your partners. You did every job. You coded, you met with investors, you emptied the trash and phoned in the midnight pizza. Now you have others to do all that and it's time for you to "be strategic." Whatever that...
INC: How to Get Your Employees to Think Strategically
What leadership skill do your employees, colleagues, and peers view as the most important for you to have? According Robert Kabacoff, the vice president of research at Management Research Group, a company that creates business assessment tools, it's the ability to...