Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 51

Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

It is the second smallest market in Latin America — a sharp difference compared with only a few years ago, when it used to compete with markets such as Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as the third largest market in the region, after Brazil and Mexico. Venezuela represented only 1% of total revenues.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Price Politics Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

That operating cash flow is much higher than net income at a company that has been investing huge amounts of money as it strives for global retail domination isn’t a big surprise, although the sheer size of the difference, and the sharp upward trajectory of the cash flow line, is still staggering.

Retail 20

Retail Finance Parcell Depreciation 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". Step out of your shadow, the carefully constructed almost-self you've been instructed, encouraged, cajoled to settle for. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? Can it be resolved?

Sharpe 21

Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 21

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Be able to receive and give constructive feedback.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

New thinking on this might combine education and infrastructure, and that would suggest putting the millions of unemployed homebuilders back to work designing and constructing permanent classrooms to replace the theory-of-the-broken-window depressing portables that populate our current public schools. Under Smith's system, what is healthcare?

Education 11

Education Sharpe Advertising Construction 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures. They are an "if-then" construct where there is one correct answer to a known problem.

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

How do you establish constructive workplace relationships with people you see infrequently? Wear what makes you feel sharp and confident. Create a professional backdrop for video calls so that no one has to see your kids’ ice hockey equipment in the background when you’re discussing the quarterly marketing report.

How To 8

How To Long-term Tactics Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". Step out of your shadow, the carefully constructed almost-self you've been instructed, encouraged, cajoled to settle for. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? Can it be resolved?

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

In particular, the necessity of the sharp focus provided by the Red Team/Blue Team structure is vividly illustrated by the recent official report of "The Fukishima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission." Such a robust process was clearly lacking in catastrophic events such as the BP gulf spill and the financial crisis.

Risk Management 10

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators. A sharp, shared definition of innovation. To manage innovation in a systematic way, you have to have a widely understood definition of innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8