Operating Partners = Ensure Your Growth with the credibility of having already done it (with our own business)
By Roger L. Martin The common perception is that strategy is done at the top of the org chart, and execution is done below. It is exactly the opposite . First, I should explain that I have always hated the use of the term “execution.” Its common definition is...
Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates. They’re also more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. But why are these companies...
The world’s unicorns, VC-backed startups worth more than $1 billion, have been getting a lot of press lately. At the moment, Google News lists about 16 million results for Uber and 7 million results for Snapchat. By contrast, there are fewer than 3.5 million stories...
If you asked the world’s most successful business leaders what it means to “be strategic,” how many different answers do you think you’d get? Consider this number: 115,800,000. It’s the number of unique links returned when I searched online for “strategic leadership.”...
Being a CEO is harder than ever. The rapid pace of change in business and technology means that more and more companies will find themselves being disrupted. In fact, our latest research with MIT, in which we interviewed more than 1,000 CEOs (from 131 countries and 27...
Strategies : Highly successful companies don’t rest on their laurels. Instead, they constantly look to the future and explore all possible channels for business growth. When we enter discussions with potential new clients, we discuss the best way to try to...
