Why CEOs Shouldn't Set Strategy

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  amichaels@...06/05/08 Report as spam
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  CEOs Should Set Corporate Strategy

  In my opinion, CEOs, along with the extended executive team, should set corporate strategies.
  
  Specifically, CEOs should clarify and clearly communicate the overall corporate vision, ensure the optimal mix of businesses, and establish organizational structure to ensure that the business units coordinate their efforts for the good of the overall corporate mission.
  
  I believe the point of your article is to suggest that CEOs should not get bogged down with every detailed component of each and every business unit strategy. If true, agreed.
  
  Cheers,
  Alan S. Michaels
  co-founder of www.eCompetitors.com

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  maqiutian06/05/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Why CEOs Shouldn't Set Strategy

  set the goals
  control the process
  and last make the decisions

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  excellence206/05/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Why CEOs Shouldn't Set Strategy

  Five things CEO's have the responsibility to deliver on:
  
  1. Set a SIMPLE, COMPELLING END Goal or Vision. Think Jack Welch: 'Be the #1 or #2'
  2. Set the Ground Rules or Values we will live by as we strive to achieve the end result or vision
  3. Demand executable plans
  4. Remove barriers to execution (this is CRITICAL)
  5. Reward excellence
  
  Stick with these and your potential for success will dramatically improve.

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  chamakh06/06/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Why CEOs Shouldn't Set Strategy

  let the CEO lead the guys. The team shld set goals for themselves which they see to be SMART and the CEO would evaluate sustainabilty of such objectives and approve or disapprove. However there some cases where the CEO should come up with new ideas which should strenghen the competativeness of the organisation in areas of technology and innovation. The team should be envolved in decision making some theorists said that.

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  Dribbs06/10/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Why CEOs Shouldn't Set Strategy

  Interesting subject matter of CEO's shouldn't set strategy? It was only recently we had a strategy meeting...never guess what we discussed never came out in the draft paper...the CEO had his own agenda that was not achievable by all quarters in management! Why would management staff waste their time in shaping the direction of the company if other agendas are in play.

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  harkul06/10/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Why CEOs Shouldn't Set Strategy

  the micromanagers of the world, obsessive, "I can do it all" guys and gals, get real! The ceo is there to clarify the vision and set the goals, and provide positive support. Then - move the heck out of the way so the people who were hired to do the job, can actually do it and not be bogged down and frustrated by those who think they know it all. They really don't. You know, it is really too bad, but people who constantly scream and yell, and demand "perfection" in all areas of business, tend to get their way, mostly due to mathematics, not because they are such great people, and certainly not leaders.