Timeless Advice from Marakon
Our clients regularly refer to these articles as very insightful and thought provoking. The articles provide some simple rules and advice that can help business leaders manage through the downturn, while ensuring a strong focus on long term value creation.
Published in 'Harvard Business Review':
closing the strategy to performance gap
Companies typically realize only about 60% of their strategies’ potential value, you can get a lot more than that...managing the right tension
There are three fundamental tensions with which most companies and executives struggle: profitability versus growth, short term versus long term, and the whole of a company versus its partsstop wasting valuable time
The vast majority of top management teams spend too little time together and fritter away too much of it on a hodgepodge of incidentals
Published in Marakon Commentary:
jam Today! delivering in the short term while building for the long term
Most companies mistakenly focus on meeting long-term value goals. How can companies achieve both short-term and long-term focus?strategy happens
It is the quality of decisions that largely determines the quality of a business strategy and its implementation over timeMoving Beyond ROMI: What Marketers Must Do to Drive Profitable Growth (Part 2)
Eight recommendations can help you decide how much, where and in what to investTurning Downturns upside Down: How to Reposition for growth during Soft Markets
The rules for developing a valuable business portfolio are the same in good times as in badPut Value Creation First
Knowing where, how and why your company creates value will give you an advantage in deciding how you manage through the downturn and where and how to position yourself for growth