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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms […]

Radical Recovery Tools

How to survive and thrive in a down economy You can’t turn on a television, open a paper or read a news feed today without hearing more depressing news about the economy. The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. How […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Special Edition 58 – An Interview with Steve Boehlke, author of 50 Lessons on Leading […]

Alternative Selection Best Practice 1 – Common Assumptions and Variables

Alternative selection requires choices to be made between competing initiatives. Such choices necessitate a common comparative basis on which the value of each initiative is judged. Key to achieving this state is the application of common market and organizational assumptions and variables from which each initiative’s value is calculated. Without this commonality, initiative owners would likely apply assumptions favoring their initiative’s value calculation and thus diminish the leadership team’s ability to compare individual initiative values.