Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2024

Strategic fitness is a leader’s ability to learn from and adapt to their environment to set direction and create a competitive advantage. This article offers a series of questions that can help any leader evaluate and exercise their own strategic fitness.

Strategic Fit 29

Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Article Environment 29

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Under his leadership, Ghosn said, the struggling automaker would return to profitability in a year and halve its debt a year later. Fifteen years later, Nissan under Ghosn’s strategy and leadership was indeed back on its feet. Nissan’s experience reminds us that firms with good strategy but weak leadership can remain rudderless.

Chief Operating Officer 50

Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Strategy 50

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 7, 2022

Your aim is to develop a “strategic fit.” Overcome Recruiting Challenges with SWOT Analysis. When you’ve finished your SWOT analysis , you should have around five, but no more than 10, factors in each quadrant. Internal factors should complement external factors.

SWOT 52

SWOT Analysis Brand Core Competence 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

The board’s responsibility is to regularly assess and try to optimize the fit between their company’s top leader and the company’s strategic challenges. Hiring the right CEO may be a high-profile activity, but proactively managing CEO tenure to ensure the best fit will drive the best performance for the future.

Strategic Fit 9

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

EB plays the role of a venture capitalist or private-equity board with responsibility to sell, spin-out, or wind-down initiatives that, in practice, are found to be a poor strategic fit. As a great organizational scholar, James March, once noted, “ Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The vital—though not-soon-to-be answered—question is whether Mr. Nadella brings the right leadership talents not only to run the show but also to grow the enterprise at the center of one of most turbulent and competitive frays on earth. Leadership Microsoft Succession planning'

CEO 8

CEO Bottom-up Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. Managers whose leadership is inconsistent with corporate purpose and values are asked to leave, though even this last act is done with caring. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture.

Company 8

Company Commitment Teamwork Airlines 8

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 7, 2022

Your aim is to develop a “strategic fit.” Overcome Recruiting Challenges with SWOT Analysis When you’ve finished your SWOT analysis , you should have around five, but no more than 10, factors in each quadrant. Internal factors should complement external factors.

SWOT 52

SWOT Analysis Brand Core Competence 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. Hard factors being the typical features, costs, and capabilities that our clients would look at themselves, and soft factors being things like installation, out of box experience, usability, aesthetics, brand value, etc.

Products 8

Products Productivity Long-term Marketing 8