All articles tagged: strategy

Research shows that men and women have similar tolerances for taking chances.

Making the Leap. See also Top Shelf Picks: Best Business Books 2018.

Three new kinds of capital give companies a new source of leverage and power.

Listen to the specialists on your board and adopt “qualified consensus” for decision making.

Three steps to creating a better operating model.

Three questions will help you find the best combination of buy, borrow, and build for your business.

Professors Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti offer U.S. healthcare providers a prescription for reverse innovation from India.

In their new book, a trio of Rotman School professors demystify artificial intelligence for business leaders.

By carefully selecting the change-driving behaviors that are right for your organization, and the mechanisms to spread them, you can drive cultural evolution. For further insights, read “Make Your Company’s Culture Go Viral.”

How to spread the critical few behaviors that drive strategy forward. See also “How Can You Make Your Company’s Culture Go Viral?”

To compete amid myriad disruptions, insurers in all sectors must wed strategy to structural changes.

A look at the artwork from the recent pages of strategy+business, on themes including overcoming bias at work, competitiveness in the age of digitization, and the ethics of CEOs.

Clear choices can provide stability for your organization while also enhancing your strategic options and ability to adapt.

Businesses need to develop their behavior, cognitive, and network capital so they can create and capture value that competitors can’t erode.

Most structural changes will have tax implications. Thoughtful planning can help leaders convert tax traps into enhanced reorganization returns.

The greatest learning often takes place when we step outside our comfort zones.
For further insights, read “Two Simple Concepts to Free Up Innovation.”

Step into your “yikes zone,” then break anxiety-producing and overwhelming tasks into small, doable pieces. See also “How to Innovate by Stretching Yourself Mentally.”

Knowing when and when not to comment officially on a public issue.

Lessons from the Chilean government’s response to crisis.

Seven books that will help you kick off 2018 on a sound footing.

Freek Vermeulen of the London Business School offers contrarian nuggets for innovation-hungry leaders. See also “Summer Reading: 8 Business Books – in Pictures”

Do you know how people within your organization respond, work, collaborate, and, dare we say, feel?

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Without strategic guidance, corporate crisis response efforts may not be sustainable.

Those who lead and advise companies on their digital transformation should rely more on imagination and less on experience.