Comments on: CEO as Cheerleader and Visionary http://www.lynneharrold.com/2009/03/14/ceo-as-cheerleader-and-visionary/ A blog about marketing, analytics and strategy Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:56:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Scott Davis http://www.lynneharrold.com/2009/03/14/ceo-as-cheerleader-and-visionary/#comment-1482 Scott Davis Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:40:02 +0000 http://www.lynneharrold.com/?p=199#comment-1482 I completely agree that true leaders MUST lead. It's like breathing. Changing times and tides don't matter. And, it's that immutability that attracts followers. But, I'd add this: even before the current financial market crisis, the old top-down centralized executive-driven strategy process was looking a long in the tooth. The pace of the market, the volume of relevant information, the increasing sophistication of typical knowledge-workers -- these and many other factors are calling for a more collaborative strategy process. I just blogged on this subject here: http://circaspecting.typepad.com/circaspecting_musings_on_/2009/03/beyond-the-big-bang-strategy-as-habit.html I completely agree that true leaders MUST lead. It’s like breathing. Changing times and tides don’t matter. And, it’s that immutability that attracts followers.

But, I’d add this: even before the current financial market crisis, the old top-down centralized executive-driven strategy process was looking a long in the tooth. The pace of the market, the volume of relevant information, the increasing sophistication of typical knowledge-workers — these and many other factors are calling for a more collaborative strategy process.

I just blogged on this subject here: http://circaspecting.typepad.com/circaspecting_musings_on_/2009/03/beyond-the-big-bang-strategy-as-habit.html

]]> By: Craig http://www.lynneharrold.com/2009/03/14/ceo-as-cheerleader-and-visionary/#comment-1284 Craig Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:03:53 +0000 http://www.lynneharrold.com/?p=199#comment-1284 What you write is true but how many CEOs will have the vision and the courage? With stock markets at what Larry Summers at least implicitly calls "bargain basement" levels how many will be able to focus on putting out a coherent vision? Certainly, for anybody with cash, the opportunities to restructure an industry are there but who has cash and won't those that do prefer to sit on the reserve - the equivalent of stuffing money in a mattress.... It will be interesting to see who merely survives and who thrives! What you write is true but how many CEOs will have the vision and the courage? With stock markets at what Larry Summers at least implicitly calls “bargain basement” levels how many will be able to focus on putting out a coherent vision? Certainly, for anybody with cash, the opportunities to restructure an industry are there but who has cash and won’t those that do prefer to sit on the reserve - the equivalent of stuffing money in a mattress…. It will be interesting to see who merely survives and who thrives!

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