Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Create diversions when things get difficult. ’ It creates a great diversion from the real issues. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Consider Porter's value chain.

Porter 12

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. Being nice makes you a better leader and your company more profitable – new research proves it. In the Company of Givers and Takers. Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? Why Men Work So Many Hours. Real Men Go to Sleep. Connect Then Lead.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. As Levie put it: “I think that when you decide on a niche market, what you decide on what you want to be doing, do that extremely well and don’t do other things.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

Marketing 12

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

Just as companies have books of business and corporate cultures, so do individuals, who in turn populate and influence organizations. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). by Hank Moore.

Learning-by-Doing 63

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