Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. Define long term ‘something we can focus on once the basics are in place.’ Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. Inflate budgets.

Strategy 58

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

It is a space we all visit, more or less willingly, ever more often as working lives get longer and careers more fragmented. They are major career shifts. There will be one last World Cup, a career epilogue in Japan, and new chapters after that. It is common for people to change jobs over a dozen times in their lives.

How To 14

How To Career Porter Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

In the wake of any natural disaster, including the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan , urgent response eventually gives way to long-term recovery. 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 ).

Porter 13

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Americans have long believed in the importance of entrepreneurs to the health of our economy. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment. This idea may sound vague, but it is rooted in a long line of research on the economic benefits of geographic clusters.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

At the beginning of my career, I was a radio DJ. It occurred to me that this was a talent to watch, as I was already familiar with established composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others. ‘Long Day, Short Night’ by The Shirelles, Dionne Warwick and Dawn Penn. Some networkers are users.

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 63