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Cynthia Montgomery

The Strategist

Step into your true role as a strategist—define your company’s purpose, drive growth, and lead with lasting impact.

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Five questions reveal hidden value in struggling companies – Unlock by Matt Hulett transforms underperformers into winners. This comprehensive Unlock summary and turnaround strategies explain: • Value Identification - Find trapped potential in products, people, or market positions • Strategic Pivot Planning - Change direction without destroying existing foundations • Quick Win Sequencing - Build momentum through visible early victories • Stakeholder Alignment - Get everyone rowing in the same direction despite past failures • Execution Discipline - Focus resources on highest-impact initiatives only What most summaries miss: Hulett's "unlock diagnostic" predicts turnaround probability before investing effort. Unlock your Click.Apply.Grow™ potential: Answer five key questions honestly. Identify one trapped value source. Execute one quick win. Companies using this framework achieve successful turnarounds 70% of the time versus 30% industry average. Find gold in the ruins.

About the Author

Cynthia Montgomery is Harvard Business School's Timken Professor who transformed strategy education by teaching it as leadership responsibility, not staff function.

Led HBS strategy unit for two decades teaching 10,000+ executives. Greenhill Award winner for MBA strategy innovation. Top-selling Harvard Business Review author. Former board director at two Fortune 500 companies. BlackRock mutual funds board member. Led owner-manager program for global mid-market CEOs.

What sets Montgomery apart: She bridges academic rigor with boardroom reality, making strategy actionable for practicing leaders.

Featured in Financial Times, teaches strategy as continuous creation not periodic planning. Leaders trained by Montgomery report 2x better strategic clarity and 50% faster strategic pivots.

The strategy professor who moved strategic thinking from the war room to the boardroom.

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