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Surveying Strategy: The Positioning School

LDRLB

The positioning school is most closely associated with its undisputed champion, Harvard professor Michael Porter. The positioning school favored a focus on the actual content of the strategy, rather then the formal process of developing it. Strategy porter positioning strategy surveyingstrategy'

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. And an organization needs more heroes and fewer tourists, won’t you agree? Inflate budgets.

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal. It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ).

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Six Ways to Grow Your Job

Harvard Business Review

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. If you’re ambitious but your job offers you limited opportunities for exploration and growth, what can you do to develop new skills?

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Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Skills development comes first. The next challenge, once you've developed your expertise, is cultivating a receptive audience. Build your platform.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed.

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The Big Picture of Business: Leadership for the New Order of Business Part 1

Strategy Driven

Business development. At the beginning of my career, I was a radio DJ. However, the manual writing of spreadsheets gave us the chance to digest and learn from the information, developing the skills to better program for our audience. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.