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First Mover or Fast Follower?

Harvard Business Review

Transformational developments are swirling around the banking industry — as they are in nearly every industry. Many of these trends seem to fit historical patterns of transformation , which means banks need to up their innovation game. The first innovators in the market are often too early in the technology curve.

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5 Leadership Lessons: The Velocity Manifesto

Leading Blog

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In retrospect, not very much.