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The Strategic Lens: Timeless Paths to Endurance

In: The Timeless Principles of Successful Business Strategy

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  • Eric Viardot

    (Skema Business School, Skema Executive Education)

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The framework shows how enduring firms align internal capabilities with external realities to create lasting value. This strategic lens reveals three distinct paths: withdrawal, turnaround, and reshaping. Withdrawal is a deliberate decision to retreat and preserve core strengths when internal limitations and external pressures converge. It is a disciplined act of simplification and focus, allowing firms to safeguard their identity and remain viable through adversity. Turnaround restores vitality when internal dysfunction threatens survival but external conditions allow initiative. It combines financial recovery with cultural renewal, requiring leaders to reduce costs purposefully, improve revenues meaningfully, and reinvigorate people and confidence. Successful turnarounds are guided by rational audacity and strategic clarity. Reshaping occurs when strong capabilities meet constrained environments. Enduring firms influence their context through consolidation, creating new forms of value, and redefining value logic. They reshape demand, redefine expectations, and alter industry dynamics to favor their strengths. Each path reflects deliberate adaptation to context.

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  • Eric Viardot, 2026. "The Strategic Lens: Timeless Paths to Endurance," Management for Professionals, in: The Timeless Principles of Successful Business Strategy, edition 0, chapter 10, pages 111-119, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-032-14617-5_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-14617-5_10
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