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Leaders Weigh in on Achieving Breakthrough Results – A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. ” – Michael Porter. Culture and Teamwork. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” ” – Michael Jordan. Follow Abby. “Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.”

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The Big Trends Changing Community Development

Harvard Business Review

This is what is going on now in community development. Three lines of progress are crossing, and rapidly reshaping how businesses and nonprofits together strengthen the locales in which they operate. Child sponsorships have been operating since 1953, and all of them share the high-level objective of breaking the cycle of poverty.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. Despite this modularization, managers still relied on one support system to unify a set of seemingly smaller value chains; information. Develop a vision of the future.

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Secure Your Flanks, Protect Your Business

Harvard Business Review

In Operation Desert Storm , more than 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait, fixed themselves into strategic positions — in front lines — to combat U.S. When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. Can you drive both new opportunities and new behavior within your organization while achieving social impact?

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? You and I consent to the system. And the system consents to us. There is no system. You and I aren't the system. Let me tell you a secret.

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Social Progress = Economic Success: Social Innovation at Work

Harvard Business Review

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success.