First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 31, 2012

Andrea Kates (akates@BusinessGenome.com) is the founder of the Business Genome® project and author of the visionary bestselling business innovation book, Find Your Next (McGraw-Hill, November 2011).

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Airlines Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 70

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Some lists do draw heavily from research, like this 2011 one , published by HBR. A main reason why is that times change, the world evolves, and technology advances. One can analyze these episodes in hindsight , with laser-sharp precision, but the rest of us have to face them in the uncertain, ever-changing future.

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Succession Advice Collins Sharpe 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The Bad: The Local Coffee Shop In tough economic times, small business owners should have a laser-sharp focus on great customer service, doing everything they can to ensure their customers feel respected and loved. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. Make your customers feel valued. Consider leaving a comment!

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Then I heard that it grew 429% from September to December 2011. Refuse to use the technology and we end up behind the curve. Use the technology and we risk wasting our time or, worse, embarrassing ourselves. Pinterest founders Ben Silbermann , and Evan Sharp are mapping American culture. My first reaction was panic.

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Marketing Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up 14

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead. Have a joy filled 2011. I wish you and family a blessed 2011 as well. Thanks for the great reminder.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Our research and work with companies suggest three broad approaches you can try, each with its own pros and cons: Enact a sharp "decree" to force a specific change in behavior. You need to find the middle ground: judicious interventions that allow knowledge workers to help themselves.

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Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

You get to a point where you believe your skills are so sharp, and so good, that you can actually overcome the Peter Principle, and change a person into something they are clearly not. Terry Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Links for April 25 2010 | Dallas Technology Strategy Consulting | Eric D. Especially when it comes to hiring.

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Open-book Blog Core Competence Books 222

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people.

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We surveyed how these trends might apply to the high-tech sector, looking at data through 2011 and using a broader definition for high-tech that stretches beyond software and Internet companies to include things like computer hardware, life sciences, aerospace, and scientific research. That figure fell to 38% by 2011.

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Sharpe Analysis Entrepreneur Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies.

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Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9