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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. SD : It sounds logical to develop strategy by starting with one’s capabilities.

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China's Stubbornly High Food Prices

Harvard Business Review

Rising prices may appear to be good for the Chinese farmer, but sharp increases in the prices of agricultural inputs, such as fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides, have eroded almost all their gains. In fact, agricultural input prices were 15% higher in September 2011 than they were a year ago, with fertilizer prices rising by 19% year-on-year.

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