Kim Warren on Strategy

Strategy insights and living business models

Leadership and strategy

Seeing our bankers grilled by politicians for gross failure highlights a confusion we see much of – an implied assumption that great leadership is the same as great strategic management.  Most telling for me was that of the 6 banking heads challenged by MPs in the UK, half had no significant industry experience! There is a big difference between knowing what’s best to do and inspiring others to do it – and being good at the second but useless at the first is a recipe for disaster. It’s about time we dropped the CEO-as-hero/heroine cult and valued properly the skill of strategic analysis. Fortune magazine seems the wp_ offender in promoting this cult, so next time you read gushing flattery of some leader, just pause to wonder if their organization is continuing to manage its strategy well.

Strategy Dynamics Essentials

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Strategic Management Dynamics

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