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The McKinsey Quarterly: Most popular articles (First Quarter, 2011)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Ten timeless tests can help you kick the tires on your strategy, and kick up the level of strategic dialogue throughout your company. STRATEGY Have you tested your strategy lately? Click [.].

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Grow: A book review by Bob Morris

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Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Great Companies Jim Stengel Crown Business (2011) How and why “maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. What powers an enterprise to [.]. They’re inseparable.”

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Today We Are Rich: A book review by Bob Morris

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Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence Tim Sanders Tyndale House Publishers (2011) A grandmother for all seasons In this his latest book, Tim Sanders creates a context, a frame-of-reference, for several concepts introduced in earlier works, notably in Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go [.].

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Playing war games to win

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Here is a terrific article written by John Horn for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, and featured online (March 2011). To read the complete article and check out the wealth of free resources as well as obtain subscription I formation, please click here. * * * War games can be a powerful [.].

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The Essential Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi Harvard Business Review Press (2011) The strategic power of coherence According to Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi in the first chapter, to achieve and then sustain a competitive advantage, a company “must be resolutely focused and clear-minded (..)

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“That’s the way we (used to) do things around here”

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It is co-authored by Jeffrey Schwartz, Pablo Gaito, and Doug Lennick and featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company (February 22, 2011/ Spring 2011 /Issue 62). Here is an excerpt from one of the most interesting articles I have read in several years.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * When they set out to [.].

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