by ReachForYourBest | Mar 3, 2025 | HBR, Strategy
With a net worth estimated at $1.6 billion, Swift is the most financially successful musician of her generation. And she’s managed to achieve all this during a time when the industry has undergone profound technological and business model shifts, moving from CDs to...
by ReachForYourBest | Feb 21, 2025 | HBR, Strategy
A senior executive posed a simple yet profound question: “Are we winning?” It sparked an intense discussion… What does winning mean to us? Are we using the right scorecard to measure and manage progress? Which strategic factors are constraining our...
by ReachForYourBest | Dec 4, 2024 | Forbes, Strategy
Customer-centric leaders understand that personalization is no longer optional; it is essential… Leaders who view their audience as dynamic and diverse individuals—and build strategies around this understanding—can transform customer experiences from mere...
by ReachForYourBest | Nov 15, 2024 | Forbes, Strategy
Strategy is a flexible plan that guides us as we seek to create a change. It’s scary and it takes time… A gardener plants seeds, but doesn’t expect that they’ll have an orchard or a bushel of crops in an hour or even a week. Planting is simply a step in the...
by ReachForYourBest | Aug 28, 2024 | HBR, Strategy
At the end of the day, the key thing to remember is that a strategy is about identifying where you need to go in order to satisfy your stakeholders’ needs… it is essentially an outward looking, relatively high-level exercise. Only after you’ve figured out where...
by ReachForYourBest | Jun 5, 2024 | HBR, Leadership, Strategy, summer2024
According to research by Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria, the average CEO invests 45 minutes a day developing their physical fitness. How much time are you investing each day in your strategic fitness?Rich Horwath, founder & CEO,...
