thoughtLEADERS, LLC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Market and organizational changes can require you to shift your strategic focus. Market and organizational changes can require you to shift your focus. Remember that your team’s time and energy is a fixed asset. Remember that your team’s time and energy is a fixed asset.

Fixed Assets 122

Fixed Assets How To Project Energy 122

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

Investing in fixed assets. Investopedia defines an asset as an economically valuable resource owned, controlled, or acquired with the expectation that it will appreciate later. A fixed asset is an asset acquired to liquidate at a later period. Investing in marketing. Buying the right insurance.

Entrepreneur 82

Entrepreneur Fixed Assets Insurance Outsourcing 82

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Too many business leaders are preoccupied with the next answer to growth and find themselves stretched thin – trying to play in too many disparate markets and pursuing multiple strategies and directions that undermine rather than reinforce each other. As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

Strategy 178

Strategy Short-term Competitive Advantage Fixed Assets 178

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I : Wow, cool, and that’s going to let us help so many more customers and markets than we can now! SQ : Nice idea, but we have to recognize the sunk costs of our existing fixed assets. I : That would work, and we can diversify our coating suppliers to assure quality and price.

Fixed Assets 125

Fixed Assets Short-term Long-term Innovation 125

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It is derived by adjusting for changes in gross margin, capital intensity (fixed assets as a proportion of total assets), and positively for sales surprise (the degree to which actual sales exceeds or falls short of forecast). Consider the following example that Vishal Gaur of Cornell, my frequent co-author, shared with me.

Retail 15

Retail Marketing Benchmarking Fixed Assets 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Companies that demonstrate strategic coherence — think Wal-Mart and Coca-Cola — earn a market premium in terms of higher earnings and greater shareholder value. Start from the opposite direction: Find an attractive market that values what you do best! There's no doubt about it; numbers don't lie.

Strategy 15

Strategy Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Long-term 15