"Check" This Out

Oren Harari, Ph. D., is a professor of management at the University of San Francisco who has written seven books and been featured in all the major management journals.

Oren's latest is an e-Column "A Market-Leading, Value-Creating Strategy", a three-part checklist. It is eight pages of cogent, focused questions that challenge leaders at any level of the organization to think through what they are doing. The e-Column is $1.95 on Amazon.com and well worth it.

For example, in the "purpose" section he asks "How do we define “success”? How will we know if we are succeeding or failing over the next three years?". He asks "What’s unique and special about our organization? What is truly different about our value proposition?" in his section on uniqueness. Not earth-shattering, perhaps, but focused to make you think.

Other sections include Principles and Values, Market Leadership, and the Execution, Sustainability, Profitability, and Reality of your Strategy. A sample question here is, "Do we execute with aggressive efficiency, speed, commitment, and vigor? Does this describe everyone in leadership positions? Does this describe the organization as a whole?"

I read it and my one-word review was "Wow!" See if you don't agree.

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