Focus on: Strategic Execution

In this issue, two Wharton Advanced Management Program faculty members look at strategic execution, with a particular emphasis on new ventures. We also examine how Textron has used a flexible approach to executive development to execute its own strategic transformations. Experts in the Wharton Career Advisor offer advice to a financial services executive who is trapped by past success. Finally, we explore the power of transforming mental models, which led to the creation of the Wharton Fellows Program and a new book on The Power of Impossible Thinking.

We hope these insights will help you better execute your own strategies.

Best regards,
Barbara Gydé
Senior Director, Executive Programs
[barbaracg@wharton.upenn.edu]

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Advanced Management Program
Strategic Execution

Strategies almost always look good on paper, but many fail in execution. Two faculty members in Wharton's Advanced Management Program examine approaches for improving strategic execution. [More]

Custom Programs
Textron Global Leadership Forum: Program Structure Follows Strategy

Because Textron's executive education for senior executives focuses on the company's current strategic priorities, it never runs the same way twice. [More]

Wharton Career Advisor
Pigeonholed by Success

The more successful you are in a certain role, the harder it can be to move into other areas of the business. A leader who has been pigeonholed as the "best compliance officer they've ever worked with" wrote for advice on breaking free to take on a broader leadership role. Wharton experts offer their comments. [More]

Wharton Fellows
Thinking Outside the Bento Box

Wharton Fellows have gone to Munich, Seattle, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Tokyo, and other ends of the Earth to challenge and transform their thinking. The insights that formed the foundation for this unique executive education program have become the basis for a new book, The Power of Impossible Thinking. [More]

Education à la Carte
Getting the Job Done

Sometimes strategic plans are stalled because you don't have the capabilities to carry them out. Whatever specific challenges you may face in your career — from developing and implementing competitive strategy to taking on new leadership responsibilities to engaging in negotiations — Wharton has executive programs that can give you the insights and frameworks to get the job done:

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Pension Strategy
Sept. 15–17, 2004
Philadelphia

Pricing Strategies: Measuring, Capturing, and Retaining Value
Oct. 24–28, 2004
Philadelphia

Pension Funds and Investment Management
Nov. 8–12, 2004
Philadelphia

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