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1 week agoThe StrategIQ Mindset: Steven Lovett's Guide to Turning Executives Into Strategic Assets
When a company is "over-optimizing the wrong things," you typically see a high ratio of near-term improvement projects (process improvement, cost-cutting, incremental feature work) to long-term transformation projects (new capabilities, new business models, new markets), often with transformation falling below 30% of major initiatives. You also see executive time dominated by operational topics; less than about 40% of executive meeting time is spent on forward-looking capability building, portfolio bets, and strategic repositioning.
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