Ronald Frank, Dwight Gertz and John Porter
Leadership is the energizing and directing force that must enable the four key elements of growth: strategic assessment, opportunity identification, development, and execution.
Although the U.S. military's recent downsizing hurt financial profits at many businesses catering to service personnel, financial services provider USAA sailed through the period…
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Although the U.S. military's recent downsizing hurt financial profits at many businesses catering to service personnel, financial services provider USAA sailed through the period with its customary double‐digit growth. Ignoring the conventional wisdom that shrunken customer bases lead to decreases in profits and corporate size, the company boldly set about adding products, increasing sales, and improving the quality of services.
Does a corporation exist to generate a profit or to contribute to society?
What can big business learn from small business? Plenty. But beware—the same mistakes can kill any company, any size.
Two consumer services firms unite to create a company whose biggest assets are information and affiliations.
There's loyalty and then there's loyalty—new and old school, paid and volunteer. Here's a sampling from a variety of perspectives. Compare and contrast; condone and condemn.
Instead of producing a conference issue as in the recent past, Strategy & Leadership will invite selected keynote speakers and session presenters at the Strategic Leadership…
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Instead of producing a conference issue as in the recent past, Strategy & Leadership will invite selected keynote speakers and session presenters at the Strategic Leadership Forum's annual international conference to submit articles for publication throughout the year.
What you can learn from books about other companies depends first on what they've done, and then on how well the authors can explain it. The rise of Microsoft, the renewal of the…
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What you can learn from books about other companies depends first on what they've done, and then on how well the authors can explain it. The rise of Microsoft, the renewal of the U.S. Army, National Semiconductor's turnaround, and the merger of SmithKline Beckman with Beecham are good places to find rich material.