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How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy

Harvard Business

How do emotions shape strategy making? We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

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Ensure Success by Predicting Failure: Testing Design Solutions with Premortem Analysis

Kates Kesler

After weeks of assessment, analysis, and discussion, your design team has arrived at a comprehensive solution that will create an organization with the right structure, roles, governance, process, and metrics to deliver on the business strategy. As the sponsor or project manager, you ask, “what could go wrong”? The team is silent.

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Ensure Success by Predicting Failure: Testing Design Solutions with Premortem Analysis

Kates Kesler

After weeks of assessment, analysis, and discussion, your design team has arrived at a comprehensive solution that will create an organization with the right structure, roles, governance, process, and metrics to deliver on the business strategy. As the sponsor or project manager, you ask, “what could go wrong”? The team is silent.

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Good News: Investors Cut Gold Holdings to Six-Year Low; Good Timin'

MishTalk

Investors cut holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded products to the lowest since 2009 as surging stock markets from the U.S. metric tons, or 0.3 stock markets and China’s stock market as well,” Victor Thianpiriya, an analyst at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. interest rates boosted the dollar.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. Metrics emphasized speed. Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees.

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Recession is On the Way: Questioning One's Sanity; Beat the Crowd, Panic Now!

MishTalk

In 2006-2007 I called for a recession. Consensus opinion is batting a perfect 0.00% Investigating the Record By the way, the ECRI was late in calling the recession of 2007. Consensus opinion is batting a perfect 0.00% Investigating the Record By the way, the ECRI was late in calling the recession of 2007. We got a big one.

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