In A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management EffectivenessRoger Martin believes execution is the same as strategy.
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Topics: Execution, strategy decisions, Strategy Decision, Strategy - How, Winning Strategy, Execution What it's the Same As Strategy, Roger Martin, A New Way to Think
CEO TEST - #1 Can You Develop a Simple Plan for Your Strategy
Posted by Douglas Wick on Mon, Aug 2, 2021
The CEO Test: Master The Challenges That Make Or Break All Leaders, authors Adam Bryant, and Kevin Sharer provide the key elements a CEO needs for success. This is not a touchy-feely book, although it does address the need for establishing culture. Nor is it a prescriptive book about how to create the right strategy. It reveals Seven Key Tests to be a successful CEO with key insights from leaders who are provided as examples.
Read MoreTopics: Discipline Plan, Strategy Decision, Strategy - How, Strategy Question, Competitive Strategy, The CEO Test
The contractor did remodels. He worked in the Chicago Suburbs and had a thriving business. The systems he’d developed built consistency and predictability. His team knew how to do their jobs, by following his precise systems. His firm had the area’s best reputation.
Read MoreTopics: Differentiation, One Phrase Strategy, Strategy Decision, Differentiation Strategy, Competitive Strategy, Key Attribution Framework, 3HAG WAY
If 2020 was a humbling year for you in terms of revenue growth, then it’s time to work on strategy.
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Understand Success – Your Flywheel Architecture & Extensions
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 22, 2020
"The greatest danger in business and life lies not in outright failure but in achieving success without understanding why you were successful in the first place."
Read MoreTopics: Jim Collins, Build up to Breakthrough Flywheel, Strategy Decision, Strategy - How, Turning the Flywheel, Flywheel, Flywheel Extension, Good to Great to Gone
As we shared in Amazon Flywheel transformed its business - Bezonomics, discovering it’s Flywheel in 2001 transformed Amazon into the powerhouse it is today.
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Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Winning Strategy, Strategy Question, Competitive Strategy
Low-Cost vs. Differentiation - Example of Playing to Win
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 23, 2019
Topics: strategy, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Winning Strategy, Low-Cost Strategy, Differentiation Strategy
One of my customers is growing fast. They’ve added 25 employees this year, increased revenue 45%, and plan to acquire additional companies to fuel their growth to add new people over the next three years.
Read MoreTopics: strategy, Core Competencies, Strategy Decision, Playing To Win, Core Capabilities, Strategy - How
“…strategy is disciplined thinking that requires tough choices and is all about winning.” ~ A.G. Lafley, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works.
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