10 ‘Enduring Strategies For Turbulent Times’

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Public policy and business environment suffer because of globaloney. People with more exaggerated views of the levels of globalization also see globalization as more harmful, fueling pressures for protectionism.’

The laws of globalization provide a stable foundation on which strategies can be constructed even in the midst of an antiglobalization backlash.’

‘Since the return of the millennium, growth rates have diverged between advanced and emerging economies, with emerging economies taking of while growth in advanced economies has been sluggish.’

‘While trade may not gain grow twice as fast as GDP over an extended period, there is still large, untapped potential for trade depth to increase.’

‘Since emerging economies lag far behind advanced ones on the depth of their information, people, and capital flows, further development in emerging economies could power large increases in these aspects of globalization.’

‘As globalization has come under pressure, business leaders are thinking through how to adjust their international strategies in response to the changing environment.’

Boosting adaptation can help firms deal with globalization- related headwinds.’

Adaptation adjusts to differences to expand the score over which aggregation and arbitrage strategies can be successfully employed.’

Aggregation exploits similarities across countries to create value from scale and scope economies. This is the primary international strategy for most incumbent multinationals from advanced economies.’

Incumbents will need to preserve their aggregation advantages while shoring up weaknesses on arbitrage and becoming better adapted in key emerging markets.’

Source

Pankaj Ghemawat (2018). The New Global Road Map: Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times

‘Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business’

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Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them. But the healthy ones tap into almost all of it.’

At the heart of vulnerability lies the willingness of people to abandon their pride and their fear, to sacrifice their egos for the collective good of the team.’

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, and attempt to find the best possible answer.’

‘If an organization is tolerant of everything, it stands for nothing.’

When leadership team members avoid discomfort among themselves, they only transfer it in far greater quantities to larger groups of people throughout the organization they’re supposed to be serving.’

Peer-to-peer accountability is the primary and most effective source of accountability on a leadership team.’

No matter how good a leadership team feels about itself, and how noble its mission might be, if the organization it leads rarely achieves its goals, then, by definition, it’s simply not a good team.’

Teams that lead healthy organizations come to terms with the difficult but critical requirement that its members must put the needs of the higher team ahead of the needs of their departments.’

More than getting the right answer, it’s often more important to simply have an answer– one that is directionally correct and around which all team members can commit.’

‘Employees in every organization, and at every level, need to know that at the heart of what they do lies something grand and aspirational.’

An organization’s strategy is nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.’

Source

Patrick Lencioni (2012). The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business