How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Great article in Harvard Business Review that I thought it was worth sharing.

“CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment:

• Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value
• Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths
• Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk
• Responding rapidly to opportunity versus ensuring high quality
• Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team “

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Great CEOs See the Importance of Being Understood No one who listens to Alan Mulally describe Ford’s remarkable turnaround escapes his rendition of One Ford, One Team, and Working Together. “Those are more than just words,” he passionately declared. Ford employees were expected to carry their CEO’s “one-ness” message with them on laminated cards. View this on Harvard Business Review >

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Raj Sharma
Public Spend Forum
Washington DC
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