Kim Warren on Strategy

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· Strategy

Experience matters

Nice to see confirmation that good strategic management is more likely if the complexities of the job are handled by people with experience. HBSP’s Daily Stat reports an academic study showing that insiders make better CEOs than external appointees. Perhaps this will hold back some Boards’ preference for paying exorbitant sums to head-hunters to…

Kim Warren

CEOs, insiders, strategic management

· Strategy

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. 

Kim Warren

bankers, CEOs, Fortune magazine, leadership, performance, strategic management

· Strategy

Strategy and sustainability

Had a couple of interesting contacts on this last week. Seems senior executives in general certainly ‘want to do what’s right’, but face two difficulties. First, it’s not as obvious as it seems to know what the right thing is to do [think of the debates about exploiting cheap labour…

Kim Warren

capgemini, CEOs, Christine Hodgson, CO2 emissions, CO2 levels, David Bent, Drew Jones, ELP, European Climate Foundation, European Environment Agency, Executive Leadership Partnership, forum-for-the-future, Global warming, greenhouse gases, James Robey, Pangaea simulator, scarce resources, Strategy, strategy dynamics, strategy dynamics solutions, Suresh Mistry, sustainability, Sustainability Institute, Tallberg Foundation, Tom Cummings, top teams, waste

· Strategy

The banking crisis - again

I’ve gone on about this before, but it’s gone way, way worse since I last brought it up, so let’s not forget

Kim Warren

analysts, banking, CEOs, competence, strategic management, sub-prime, toxic loans

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