Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Creating
Competitive
Advantages
The Importance of Leadership
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Consider…
Maintaining competitive success or even
surviving over long periods of time is difficult
for companies of any size.
SO how much credit (or blame) does a leader
deserve?
Leaders can make a difference
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Intended
Intended Strategy
Strategy RealizedStrategy
Realized Strategy
▪ Organizational ▪ Decisions are
decisions are determined by both
determined only by analysis (deliberate) &
analysis
versus unforeseen
▪ Intended strategy environmental
rarely survives in its developments,
original form unanticipated resource
constraints, and/or
changes in managerial
preferences (emergent)
Strategy Formulation
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