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Strategy & Leadership Archive

The Capable Strategist
May 13, 2013

Can Best Buy Thwart the Grim Reaper?

The big box retailer badly needs a good dose of strategic innovation. Is it up to the task?
April 15, 2013

The Agility Factor

A few large companies in every industry show consistently superior profitability relative to their peers, and they all have one thing in common: a highly developed capacity to adapt their business to change.
The Capable Strategist
April 8, 2013

We’re from Corporate and We’re Here to Help

Understanding the real value of corporate strategy and the head office.
April 1, 2013

Solving China’s M&A Maze

Multinationals creating partnerships with Chinese companies can adopt eight best practices to help manage the unique complexities they often encounter.
March 11, 2013

The Discipline of Managing Disruption

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.
The Capable Strategist
March 11, 2013

The Right Ideas in All the Wrong Places

How strategic intuition unlocks innovative solutions to your biggest problems.
February 26, 2013

Well-Tailored IT

Develop a sophisticated, more strategically oriented information technology approach.
February 26, 2013

Think Functionally, Act Strategically

When a company competes on capabilities, its specialist leaders—in HR, IT, finance, and elsewhere—play a new, influential role.
February 26, 2013

Product Management Gets Stronger

An innovative approach to managing product portfolios—the strong-form model—can help companies stay ahead of change.
February 26, 2013

Six Secrets to Doing Less

Why the best innovation strategies are rooted in the art of subtraction.
February 26, 2013

Designing the Right Supply Chain

Companies that align their operations to their strategy unleash superior performance.
February 26, 2013

The Thought Leader Interview: Cynthia Montgomery

A Harvard Business School professor observes that leaders become better strategists by engaging in conversations about the purpose of a company.
February 26, 2013

Beyond Functions

Conventional organizational structures may be obsolete. How about a model based on capabilities instead?
February 26, 2013

Hyundai’s Capabilities Play

The Korean automaker’s explosive growth in the last few years—achieved through better quality, stylish design, and clever marketing—has made it a dynamic player in the U.S. auto industry.
The Capable Strategist
February 11, 2013

How Leaders Mistake Execution for Strategy (and Why That Damages Both)

When leaders substitute visions, missions, purposes, plans, or goals for the real work of strategy, they send their firms adrift.
February 4, 2013

What Drives a Company’s Success?

Booz & Company and strategy+business have introduced an online survey to explore the relationship between management theory, corporate identity, and high performance.
January 21, 2013

The Multipolar MBA

To Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard Business School professor known for his histories of management knowledge, business schools are facing a crisis of global irrelevance.
January 7, 2013

Building the Skills of Insight

To eminent systems therapist David Kantor, learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership.
Best Business Books 2012
November 27, 2012

Best Business Books 2012: Strategy

Considering Competition
November 27, 2012

The Lesson of Lost Value

A new study finds that underestimating strategic risk is the number one cause of shareholder value destruction. But it doesn’t have to be.
November 27, 2012

The Thought Leader Interview: William J. O’Rourke

The former head of Alcoa Russia teaches executives that in international business practice, ethics and competitive advantage go hand in hand.
November 27, 2012

The Offline Executive

A manager’s effectiveness depends not only on using e-mail and other electronic communication, but also on learning to shut it down.
August 28, 2012

Why Walmart Is Like a Forest

Thinking about your company as an ecosystem yields lessons for innovation, growth, and renewal.
August 28, 2012

The Business Case for the European Union

To corporate leaders, this year’s economic crisis is a sign that a more unified Europe is a solution, not a problem.
August 28, 2012

Managing in a Multipolar World

Why global companies need to rethink their operating models.
August 28, 2012

Planning for Facebook’s Future

As CEO of a public company, Mark Zuckerberg needs to engage his board in developing the next generation of leaders.
August 28, 2012

School Reform for Realists

Partnerships between business and education have a place in solving the talent gap, but not in the way most executives expect.
August 20, 2012

Staying on the Road to Growth

Even amid ongoing tensions, Middle East leaders must maintain their commitment to economic reform.
August 6, 2012

Blank Checks: Unleashing the Potential of People and Businesses

How an unusual management technique inspires business teams to envision — and achieve — breakthrough results.
The Capable Strategist
June 1, 2012

Strategy or Execution: Which Is More Important?

Many business leaders think they’d rather have great execution than superior strategies, but you can’t have the first without the second.
May 29, 2012

Is Your Company Fit for Growth?

A more strategic approach to costs can help you prepare for the next round of expansion.
May 29, 2012

Connections with Integrity

The venture capitalist who cofounded LinkedIn reveals the surefire system that he has used since high school for evaluating potential business relationships.
May 29, 2012

The Steve Jobs Way

Leaders can learn a lot from the late Apple CEO, but not all of it should be emulated.
May 29, 2012

The Right Role for Top Teams

Analysis of informal networks offers a potent leadership model for the C-suite: Make top teams the hub of the enterprise, and watch performance improve.
The Capable Strategist
May 29, 2012

Strategy: An Executive’s Definition

What is a business strategy? It is the result of choices made to maximize long-term value.
May 29, 2012

Three Games of Strategic Thinking

Decision makers struggling with uncertainty can choose from a trio of probabilistic models to match the type of risks they face.
May 29, 2012

China’s Mid-Market Innovators

A new category of competitor — low-price, medium-quality Chinese B2B upstarts — is shaking up the global competitive landscape.
May 24, 2012

CEO Succession 2011: The New CEO’s First Year

Big companies are once again appointing new chief executives in greater numbers, Booz & Company’s annual study finds. Here’s a close look at the incoming class, and some advice from veterans on how they can best navigate their crucial first year.
May 24, 2012

Navigating the First Year: Advice from 18 Chief Executives

CEOs who took part in Booz & Company’s 2011 study of CEO turnover share their thoughts about the difficulties they faced, the successes they achieved, and what, in retrospect, they might have done differently in their first year on the job.