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"Active inertia selected as an idea that shaped business management over the last century" in the The Economist Check it out

"Closing the gap between strategy and execution" in the Sloan Management Review Order this article

Fortune Magazine selects Don as one of the "ten new gurus you should know" Check it out

Next session of Achieving Strategic Agility one week course to run at the London Business School 16-21 November 2008. Learn more about this course

"Promise-based management: The essence of execution ," published April 2007 in Harvard Business Review (with Charles Spinosa). Order this article

Emerging market champions such as InBev and Mittal Steel have emerged as global leaders through strategic agility. Learn more about how they did it, and what you can learn from them.

• Read a short article on how emerging markets can breed world-class competitors
  
  
• See how emerging market champions can innovate despite limited resources
  
  
• The best firms from emerging markets are setting their eyes on global markets. Read how the best of them do it

Professor Donald Sull is a global authority on achieving strategic agility in unpredictable markets. His research and consulting focuses on helping managers in large, complex organizations enhance their ability to anticipate and seize fleeting opportunities.

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Strategic agility is the ability to consistently spot changes in the environment and exploit them to create value. Easy to define, but difficult to do, particularly in large, complex organizations. Professor Sull's current research, teaching and consulting focuses on helping managers enhance their organization's strategic agility.

• Watch the achieving strategic agility course video
  
  
• Read Don's discussion of strategic agility in the Financial Times Mastering Uncertainty series
  
  
• Watch a short video lecture on strategic agility
  
  
• Check out Professor Sull's online course on managing in an uncertain world in conjunction with the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com/cms/0ddd8a5e-a3bb-11da-83cc-0000779e2340.html

Executives must make commitments to get things done. Over time, however, commitments tend to harden leading to active inertia. Professor Sull has spent the past decade studying commitments as the essence of effective management.

• Watch a short video on using commitments to achieve strategic agility
  
  
• Order the article "Using commitments to manage across units," Sloan Management Review (with Charles Spinosa).
  
  
• Watch a longer video on how to enhance the quality of promises within your organization
  
  
• Read a short article on how commitments can harden and contribute to inertia which hinders strategic agility