That today's mergers seem strongly correlated with the resilience of the stockmarket is itself a bad sign: when takeovers using highly rated paper are easy and cheap, the strategic thinking behind them tends to be easy and cheap too.
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But technology didn't suddenly decide to ruin journalism--a generation of complacent news leaders simply failed to meet its challenges with the deft strategic thinking demanded by their pay scale.
Austen also carefully distinguishes strategic thinking from other concepts often confused with it, such as selfishness and economism, and even discusses the disadvantages of strategic thinking.
At the same time, a cautionary word is due: While the geographic commands are a useful tool for dividing up the Pentagon's work, the danger is that they are also the enemy of strategic thinking.
My role will be to uphold the standards of creativity, passion and strategic thinking that I admire in the pioneers of this industry.
At 1pm, the Public Administration Committee rounds off its inquiry into strategic thinking in government with the coalition's designated strategic thinker, Oliver Letwin MP, minister for government policy.
And just as the fate of the Jews in Auschwitz has always been in the background of Israeli strategic thinking, so it is clear that Srebrenica plays a similar role for Bosniaks.
Stimulate strategic thinking in the area of education planning and management taking into account state of the art knowledge, needs of the Governments, as well as initiatives and services provided by international development agencies.
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He is, however, rather less so when it comes to the patient, long-term strategic thinking on which lasting success is usually founded.
But has he inherited the business sense, tenacity and strategic thinking that enabled his father to build Hyundai into South Korea's biggest chaebol?
In the leadership context, it enables better strategic thinking, builds resilience and patience and strengthens overall emotional intelligence.
EU's capacity for strategic thinking does shrink, the loss will scarcely show in the next year or two.
We desperately need long-term investment, strategic thinking and, perish the thought, some planning.
The fact is that these acquisitions, presented to the public as strategic victories by forward-thinking, successful companies are in fact devastating admissions of failure.
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But in a moment of strategic thinking, I committed The China Business Network to hosting an event on opportunities in the healthcare sector in China, in Boston on June 3.
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Leaders who rise to the top are ones who constantly sharpen their strategic thinking by questioning their own views, by listening to different viewpoints, surrounding themselves by people with different expertise areas and doing anything else they can to gain different perspectives.
The second is that the Chinese have promised many such loans in their efforts to gain access to strategic resources around the world, and are now thinking carefully about which loans they should actually commit to.
Following Boyd, we can also suggest a fix: Amazon needs more of a Blitzkrieg type strategic culture, based on Einheit (mutual trust) and other elements of German World War II type strategic thinking that allowed strategic and tactical genius to flourish at all levels, not just at the top (Germany too, eventually lost, but arguably because it failed to sustain the discipline of the initial years of Blitzkrieg).
She said the budget had been "cobbled together" and lacked strategic thinking.
It requires strategic thinking, prioritization, and resources from the very top of the firm to ensure smart plans are developed that can be excellently executed.
For this amount of brain-power and strategic and tactical thinking to be lost to the United States because of an affair with his biographer will no doubt seem to many in Europe and the rest of the world to be completely disproportionate.
First, strategic thinking is grounded in a strong understanding of the complex relationship between the organization and its environment.
Whether it was appeasing the Soviet premiers of yesteryear or coddling today's Arab autocrats, the tendency to see the merits of such iron-fisted rule has colored Western strategic thinking.
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So how can you continually hone your strategic-thinking skills in order to provide value to the organization and advance your career?
And to highlight why CIOs today have to focus on strategic thinking and business outcomes or risk being reassigned to the role of director of IT infrastructure, here are several of those insightful points from the McKinsey article along with my comments on each.
Lloyd would bring an important combination of strategic thinking, regional knowledge and proven judgment to one of the most critical posts in the department.
Discerning where change is leading is difficult, though, not least because of the sedulousness with which all the players and particularly the U.S. and endeavoring to hide some new strategic thinking and plans.
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The whole concept of a war czar is outside all organizational, administrative, strategic thinking that we do.
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