Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business.

Blue Ocean Strategy 250

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As Peter Drucker said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” The purpose of strategy is to create a competitive advantage. This could be done through efficiency, innovation, and collaboration. Each year, they are challenged by their stakeholders to do better than they did the prior year.

Strategy 213

Strategy Competitive Advantage Drucker Brainstorming 213

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 4, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which they explain how and why organizational social-media literacy is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage.

Media 117

Media Competitive Advantage Skills McKinsey 117

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I think this is a book whose time has come because I think we are at this standpoint, especially in the over hype on leadership that we neglect its counterpart, and both are necessary, and that’s management. Leadership is a process of social influence. Leadership is about the traits or behaviors we exhibit that of course define us.

Competitive Advantage 121

Competitive Advantage Drucker Open-book Learning-by-Doing 121

LDRLB

MARCH 10, 2014

Boom, all of a sudden they’re in a leadership position or even they just stepped up and volunteered and they’re sort of in an unofficial title-less position in a project that’s the first time they’ve ever done that before. DAVID: I find that often if I’m in line with what Drucker said, I am right, so that works really well.

Drucker 74

Drucker Books Learning-by-Doing Leadership 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that. It’s time to make business human again.

Levitt 12

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

For decades, the success of a business depended on three key pillars: Innovative Ideas + Cheaper/Faster/Better Execution + Powerful Leadership. Ideas were critical, but execution was the source of competitive advantage even during the internet era for companies such as Toyota, GE, and Dell. The Leadership Trap.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Attrition Uncertainty Bottom-up 8