Planning Review: Volume 22 Issue 5
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The new strategic leadership: Driving change. getting results!
Bernard C. ReimannThe provocative theme of this year's Planning Forum conference was: “The New Strategic Leadership: Driving Change, Getting Results!” Leadership may be the only management concept…
Rethinking vision and mission
The following exchange of opinions was condensed from the “Dilemmas of Planning” session, chaired by Dan Simpson, Director of Strategy and Planning, The Clorox Company. The…
Visionary planning for a compassionate era
Robert Theobald“May you live in interesting times” goes an old Chinese curse. As you contemplate the times in which we live, expand your thinking beyond business. Remember that you have children…
Devising a balanced scorecard matched to business strategy
Robert S. KaplanWhy do companies need a new scorecard to measure performance? Why aren't time‐honored financial measures sufficient? The answer is that in today's ultra‐competitive fast‐changing…
Managing the management tools
Darrell K. RigbyHoping to find a potent formula for performance improvement, executives have invested heavily in new management tools and techniques in recent years. But there has been no…
Driving change at Bell Atlantic
Raymond W. SmithBell Atlantic has been virtually a laboratory for the development of business strategies and new approaches to cultural change since it became independent of AT&T. Today, there's…
Building a learning organization at Coopers & Lybrand
Judith Rosenblum, Reed A. KellerC&L took on the mission of building a learning organization as the result of a strategic process that we went through about two and a half years ago. We identified learning as a…
Collaborative strategic thinking
David A. NadlerDuring this past decade, we've done a lot of work with teams of people to help them think strategically, using an approach we call “collaborative strategy,” or “strategic choice.”…
Learning the unwritten rules of organizational change
Peter Scott‐MorganThere's a conspiracy of silence about the failure rate of major managerial change initiatives. Three‐quarters of the initiatives—reputable programs to manage quality, customer…
Leadership practices in marketing
Abrain I. BluesteinWhat are the cutting edge leadership practices in marketing today, and how do they differ from what your company is doing? In order to analyze how the most successful companies…
Inspiring and implementing the innovation mind‐set
Thomas KuezmarskiCompanies attempting to regenerate themselves through the introduction of successful new products must first instill an innovation mind‐set in their management. This is a…
Gary Hamel: How to compete for the future
Bernard C. ReimannMore of Professor Gary Hamel's thought‐provoking analysis appears in his long‐awaited book written with Professor C. K. Prahalad, Competing for the Future: Breakthrough Strategies…