Tag: Strategy
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Leadership Course Review: Transforming Vision into Action | Key Learnings
Producing change is about 80 percent leadership–establishing direction, aligning, motivating, and inspiring people–and about 20 percent management–planning, budgeting, organizing and problem solving. In most change efforts, those percentages are reversed. We continue to produce great managers; we need to develop great leaders. John Kotter (2006), ‘Transformation: Master three key tasks’, Leadership Excellence My Executive MBA…
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Disruptive Strategy Lessons (Part 1 of 3): Make “Customer Jobs” your North Star
As someone who has worked with/in Go-To-Market (GTM) functions for over a decade, whether in Sales, Marketing, or Product, I want to relate what I’ve learned from the Disruptive Strategy course I took at HBS Online last year to GTM. The course didn’t have anything to do with digital. Instead, it explained why and how…
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Sharpening My Strategic Lens – A Dive into Strategic Leadership
The ever-evolving business landscape demands leaders who can navigate change and proactively shape their organization’s future. To hone these essential skills, I recently completed the Strategic Leadership executive course as part of the Stanford LEAD program. This intensive program delved into the core principles of strategic thinking, providing invaluable insights into why some companies thrive while…