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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

This book helps you identify your firm’s distinctive blend of strategic direction and differentiated capabilities that give you the ‘right to win’ in your chosen markets. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. All rights reserved.

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Some of the Most Successful Platforms Are Ones You’ve Never Heard Of

Harvard Business Review

These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. For more on this, read Dee Hock’s book about starting up the Visa network.). A recent study found that SSOs published more than 200,000 standards between 1975 and 2011.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D. Ganguly, CEO of DimDim, suggested that we organized “virtual book readings” over their platform. Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular.