As it turns out, our experiences, including a
long career on Wall Street engaged with technology companies, such as IBM,
Apple, Google and others, suggests that strategy is also extremely rare in the
business world today. What is usually attributed to “short-term/quarterly
focus” goes much deeper than that. Indeed, as veteran Fortune magazine
reporter Walter Kiechel documented in his masterful 2010 book The Lords of
Strategy: The Secret
Intellectual History of the New Corporate World, strategic-thinking in business world largely
disappeared by the 1990s -- dying out with the WW II generation of corporate
leaders for whom strategy was a way-of-life.
As Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School's Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, specializing in corporate strategy, put it in public comments addressing the 2012 HBS U.S. Competitiveness Survey, “Unless you're a small, authoritarian enterprise like Singapore, strategic thinking in business today is nearly impossible.”
All this raises two basic questions: How is Trump different and why has this happened now?
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As Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School's Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, specializing in corporate strategy, put it in public comments addressing the 2012 HBS U.S. Competitiveness Survey, “Unless you're a small, authoritarian enterprise like Singapore, strategic thinking in business today is nearly impossible.”
All this raises two basic questions: How is Trump different and why has this happened now?
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/strategy_trumps_confusion.html#ixzz3ysArbZDJ
Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter |
