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The Big Picture of Business – Each Role Matters. The Value of Support Staff

Strategy Driven

From pop culture, think of the great role models that we grew up watching: Della Street was the loyal secretary to Perry Mason. Bandleaders on the late-night are vital #3 characters on the show, including Doc Severinsen, Skitch Henderson, Paul Shaffer and The Roots band. Contribute to the bottom line, directly and indirectly.

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4 Things For Profits Can Learn From Non-profits

Ron Edmondson

Recently I heard a great talk from Jeff Henderson (read my notes HERE ), on what non-profits can learn from for profits. When the father who has never been to church shows up one Sunday…small deal to some…big deal to us. We love strategies and systems and structure. My professional career, however, is much longer.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” Strategies for staying ahead. He was hardly alone — that was evidently how most economists thought about competition, too. Insight Center.

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There Are Still Only Two Ways to Compete

Harvard Business Review

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. Strategies for staying ahead. Photo by Andrew Nguyen.

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Being the World's Largest Ad Agency Might Not Be Something to Brag About

Harvard Business Review

This commentary from The Economist is both a primer for those who haven''t been keeping up with the news and a witty analysis for those paying attention to only a particular segment of the story. A cleaned-up web would be more meaningful and, ultimately, more useful. This delicate balance shouldn''t be taken for granted, however.