If Your Organization Closed, Would Anyone Notice?

July 28, 2012
Some recent reading brought me back to this fundamental strategy question – If you organization closed, would anyone notice? Who would miss you the most and how long would it take for another organization to fill your role? In her Harvard Business Review article, Putting Leadership Back into Strategy, author Cynthia Montgomery, frames strategic leadership challenges with this line of questions.

How an executive team answers these questions defines both that organizations market value, as well as its competitive advantage – a concept developed by Michael Porter and one I've written about frequent (see Better Performance=Competitive Advantage . . .