Terry Kramer
Professor of decisions, operations, and technology management, Anderson School of Management at UCLA
Terry Kramer is a professor of decisions, operations, and technology management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Kramer is one of the world’s experts on the intersection of technology and society, leading the telecommunications company Vodafone in several executive roles—including Chief Strategy Officer and Regional President for Vodafone Americas—throughout the 2000s. He later served as the head ambassador for the U.S. delegation at the World Conference on International Telecommunications under the Obama administration in 2012.
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Once you understand your environment, you have to know what success looks like in that environment. Ask yourself, ‘What does success look like for what we’re trying to do? What is it I'm trying to achieve here?'
Flight Template Series: Mastering Contextual Leadership
Identify and Align on the Best Strategy
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Once you have identified critical elements of context and where your business sits within the overarching market, aligning with your team on a relevant strategy, and actionable next steps within this context is critical. This flight will allow you to more deeply understand how your team members think about the most relevant strategy that will allow your company’s mission and vision to be achieved, and gather ideas for how best to achieve and execute on the defined strategy and ultimately, “what success looks like”.
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Types of Insights
Alignment on your mission and vision moving forward
A clear definition of success and predictions on how and why that could change
Assessment of current business efforts