Strategy’s silent saboteurs

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MTI Strategic Reflections: Hilmy Cader

Love: Falling in “love” with your strategies, when in fact they should be clinically challenged on a regular basis. Strategies must be marketresponsive, hence even be prepared to “kill” your own strategies if need be.
Ego: When leadership starts taking “proprietary ownership” of strategies and they become the basis of ego boosting.
Awards: When corporate awards become the primary source of ego and job satisfaction, strategies tend to be made for awards.
Fashion: Seeking novelty for the sake of novelty, blindly aping “buzz” management concepts.