Entrepreneurs who follow traditional administration strategies are likely to reach their desired objectives. These strategies include operational and functional level strategies, which are applied at ...

Strategy can be nothing but a buzzword, but successful businesses make it mean something. Actually, it means several things: corporate, business and functional strategies are different levels of ...

Six years ago, I wrote (with colleague Jennifer Riel) a Harvard Business Review article on functional strategy. But the questions about functional strategy keep coming unabated. It is a vexatious ...

Bottom Line: Investors appreciate hearing about a new CEO’s strategic vision, and they respond by bidding up the stock price. Traditionally, CEO strategy presentations are derided as little more than ...

During my first foray into marcomm leadership, every project seemed on fire. If the project was due at 3 p.m., the first draft was ready at 2 p.m., giving little time for adjustments. I noticed this ...