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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

Great By Choice , for example, focuses on why some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, when others do not. And that's where Michael Porter enters the picture. Porter's work provides that rigor, as it defines the economic fundamentals of competition and strategy. You have to make good choices. So what are good choices?

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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

But instead of spending hours in Best Buy or on Amazon comparing configurations and assembling the parts you needed, you could signal what you wanted and a company would create it for you. While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Imagine that you wanted a new home theater system. Big Isn't Enough.

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Social Mood and Presidential Leadership

Coaching Tip

Stock prices fell sharply despite the federal government paying off all of its debt. Conventional wisdom would have us believe reducing the national debt, or paying it off entirely, would lift stock prices. As for the directors of the South Sea Company itself, they were forced to give up their property and arrested to boot.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

There are several ways to generate Revenue Streams: Asset sale, Usage fee, Subscription fee, Lending/Renting/Leasing, Licensing, Brokerage fees, Advertising and corresponding Pricing Mechanisms) Key Resources – Key resources are the assets required to offer and deliver the previously described elements.

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Five Common Strategy Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter's most important insights for managers. Connecting the dots between his classic frameworks ( the five forces , for example) and his latest thinking (the five tests of strategy) gave me a new understanding of the most common mistakes that can derail a company's strategy.

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Stop Competing to Be the Best

Harvard Business Review

But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Not so in business, where companies like WalMart and Target can thrive and co-exist, each offering a different kind of value to its customers. Companies benchmark each other's practices and products.

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How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger

Harvard Business Review

Companies are not squarely to blame for the anger and frustration that have so warped this presidential primary season. companies, but their wrongdoing affected millions of U.S. based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal. Nor are they entirely innocent. These are not U.S.