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Michael Porter on Strategy Execution

Six Disciplines

Porter, director of Harvard's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Porter's insights on strategy and execution? Managers need to develop a clear strategy around their company's unique place in the market (and not worry as much about creating strategy to compete head-on with other companies.).

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How Your Leadership Team Can Slow Down to Speed Up

The Practical Leader

An old fable tells of a farmer with a wagon brimming full of cabbage heading to a new market. He stops for directions and asks, “How far is it to the market?” For decades, Harvard professor Michael Porter has studied, written about, and consulted top companies and countries on competitive strategy.

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New Year. New Leader.

Lead Change Blog

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. Would you like to meet my team? Amy Cuddy – She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history.

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What is the Price?

Kevin Eikenberry

Not just if we are a business owner, Brand, Marketing or Sales Manager, or someone else traditionally responsible for price, but for all of us as leaders, thinking about how people invest of themselves, their time, energy and more. I’m looking forward to reading it (my copy is on the way) and after I’ve read it I will share more.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

I call the opposite of a strategy tourist a Strategy Execution hero. So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. Change jobs regularly to outrun major execution challenges. And yes, they are somewhat lazy.

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

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Shared Value vs. Don't Be Evil

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article in January's HBR tries to advance our world's shared values by arguing that doing right is the best long-term business strategy. But first, let's praise Porter and Kramer. Their article puts Porter's reputational weight behind an idea that in itself has, well, shared value.

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