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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

In a recession, managers fixate on bad news--falling demand, tight credit, and layoffs. Focusing on the negative obscures a surprising truth: The worst of times for the economy as a whole can be the best of times for individual firms to create value. Toyota, Samsung, Nokia, and Cisco have emerged from past downturns stronger than they entered them. Below Professor Sull offers some practical advice on how you can profit from the current downturn.

• Watch the How to seize the upside of a downturn video
  
  
• Read Don's recent article on creating value in a downturn in the Financial Times Mastering Management series
  
  
• Don will offer a two day program for executives on how to seize the upside of the downturn at London Business School on April 23 and 24. Click to learn more about the course
  
  
• Check out Professor Sull's online course on managing in turbulent markets in conjunction with the Financial Times go to the course

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