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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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Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

Harvard Business Review

Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. The division had just won a big contract with a major mobile operator in Qatar and needed to customize a smartphone system for the client’s Middle East–wide network in the next six months.

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The Marketing of a President

Harvard Business Review

Progressive businesses like Salesforce.com and SAS Canada are moving toward a new marketing model in which customers sell, market and participate heavily in helping develop innovative solutions for them. For example, Michael Porter describes new approaches to regulation that stipulate measurable social improvements from initiatives.