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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 38a – Overcoming Resistance to.

Strategy Driven

Simply click on the link above to download your copy of this remarkable ebook on effective change management. About the Author Rick Maurer, author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance , is a renowned change management expert, speaker, and bestselling author. Please consider voting for us on Podcast Alley by clicking here.

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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Nokia, for example, commanded market shares of 40% in China and 56% in India by 2008. Nokia, for example, commanded market shares of 40% in China and 56% in India by 2008.

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Cisco's Flip Flop and (Mis)Managing the Obvious

Harvard Business Review

The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. The company knew digital devices were all becoming telecommunications tools. Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. What happened?

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think.

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Corporate China's Succession Struggles

Harvard Business Review

Their founders — China's first generation of entrepreneurs — are nearing retirement, so these companies' futures hinges on how effectively the incumbents manage leadership transitions. Consider, for example, the Shenzhen-based Huawei , which has become the world's second largest telecommunications equipment-maker.

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Leadership in Liminal Times

Harvard Business Review

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. It was the summer of 2000 and the company had quickly lost $85 billion in market capitalization. In this gap between ordered worlds almost anything may happen.”. Lawrence A.