The Practical Leader

AUGUST 10, 2021

In their Harvard Business Review, “Too Many Projects,” Rose Hollister and Michael Watkins write, “Leaders keep layering on initiatives, which can lead to severe overload at levels below the executive team.” ” This is a critical problem that’s burning out managers and team members.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2016

Michael Porter. Skip Prichard of Leadership Insights posits that the same strategy, the same goals, the same execution may result in different outcomes. Follow Lisa. . Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different. Follow Alli. Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2016

You probably won’t be surprised to learn that not all executive coaching engagements are successful. So, how do you determine the conditions that are ripe for an executive coaching engagement to succeed? Almost all of the people I know who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2017

Today, most people who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior. Michael Porter is another great coach in this domain. When I say most, I mean upwards of 90% of people who say they’re executive coaches have backgrounds in psychology or organizational behavior.

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Mission Statement Govindarajan Executive Coaching Porter 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

And that's where Michael Porter enters the picture. Porter's work provides that rigor, as it defines the economic fundamentals of competition and strategy. Porter's work provides that rigor, as it defines the economic fundamentals of competition and strategy. The essence of strategy, says Porter, is choosing what not to do.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 19, 2012

To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Michael Porter, the world’s leading authority on competition and strategy, [.]. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joan Magretta for the Harvard Business Review blog.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

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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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

According the Harvard strategy expert, Michael Porter: "The essence of strategy is deciding what NOT to do.". And, according to management guru Peter Drucker: “Half the leaders that I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.”

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LDRLB

JANUARY 30, 2014

Michael Porter has argued that ‘ the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do ’ but the real world essence of strategy is figuring out the best route from available means to desirable ends. It is all too common for executives to regally behead new ideas as part of a celebration of timid obedience. Yes has power.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Either the leaders of the business rush in too quickly or they take too long to execute on their vision. There will be many times when you will lack any knowledge in an important subject matter. Timing was everything.

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Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.” “Full of incredibly useful tools and charts -- all about how small businesses execute strategy.” Most importantly this book is about execution.” ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business).

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I call the opposite of a strategy tourist a Strategy Execution hero. Change jobs regularly to outrun major execution challenges. Jeroen De Flander helps you to improve your strategy execution skills in his new book, The Execution Shortcut. Strategic Planning execution innovation leadership strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2020

A conversation with executive Katherine Gehl and HBS professor Michael Porter about making U.S. politics more competitive.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

I’m looking forward to reading it (my copy is on the way) and after I’ve read it I will share more. My friend and colleague Daniel Decker has written a great review of it that I think you should check out.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The meeting opened with a welcome message from Dr Ann Francke OBE, chief executive of CMI. Four of their top executive members are also long-time Fellows of CMI, including Mr John Li, chairman of the chamber; Mr Ernest Yuen, vice chairman; Mr Conrad Lee, chairman of the board of supervisors, and Mr Alexander Chang, executive member.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Having managed or worked with clinical leaders in care-delivery organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and government, I have observed three skills that are critical to the success of doctors and nurses as they make the transition to management: Operations management and execution. It would be a shame if they did.

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Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Michael Porter, the world's leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. My premise in writing Understanding Michael Porter was very simply that clear strategic thinking is essential for any manager in any setting, and Porter's work lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

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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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 28, 2011

The CEO’s Strategy Handbook: How to create, sustain and accelerate profitable growth Stuart Cross Global Professional Publishing (2011) How to manage strategy effectively and on a continuous basis In fact, everyone in a given enterprise (including but not limited to C-level executives) should be actively engaged in effective management of strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy. A book-length executive summary that makes Michael Porter's core concepts accessible to everyone. A new generation of leaders provide an "insider's view" into what young people are thinking, planning, and doing to re-shape the world of business.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 1, 2012

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Few imagined that this juggernaut, brandishing vast resources with such steely determination, could be quickly brought down. In retrospect, it seems inevitable. Insight Center. Nokia is far from alone.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. In Porter’s view , “the essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.” The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete. Martin Reeves and Georg Wittenburg.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

That’s why I was quite interested to hear about the innovative new educational credential called the “nanodegree,” announced last month with great heraldry by AT&T and Udacity, an online education company founded by a Stanford professor and former Google executive. But for students in poverty, it is not good enough.

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Skills Porter Education Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. Luckily, strategists have studied the "what makes you special" question for some time. And Bain and Company's Chris Zook has written several useful books on the subject as well.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. Luckily, strategists have studied the "what makes you special" question for some time. And Bain and Company's Chris Zook has written several useful books on the subject as well.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

As Miller explains: “With such a console in his office, an executive can call for the curves that he needs on the screen; then, by touching the screen with the light pen, he can order the computer to calculate new values and redraw the graphs, which it does almost instantaneously.”. That could take months.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

In fact, as Kaplan and Michael Porter describe in a recent HBR article, "To put it bluntly, there is an almost complete lack of understanding of how much it costs to deliver patient care, much less how those costs compare with the outcomes achieved." And who could argue that our current system meets even that low bar ?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. For decades, strategy gurus have been telling firms to differentiate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

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. trillion by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Make no mistake – improving value for patients is hard.

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Health Care Marketing Strategy Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Had corporate executives made that choice, the shape of the economic recovery, average wages, and economic inequality would look very different today. And so would this election cycle. Nor does political rebellion serve companies or their shareholders well. companies to create employment opportunities for disadvantaged youth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ). The authors are senior leaders at FSG, a global social impact strategy firm co-founded by Mr. Kramer and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter. Take Cisco.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Instead, we should measure and manage behaviors like spending time in markets and designing and executing smart experiments and the values to which employees adhere.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

Earlier this year, executives at Sirius Satellite Radio decided to capitalize on the renewed interest in singer-songwriter Billy Joel by creating a temporary channel dedicated to him and his music.

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Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

In all, two dozen scholars, executives, and management advisors gave us their plans, along with a sense of why they've chosen certain projects and how they will go about doing them. Are there patterns among them? We were impressed and gratified to see the social issues so many "business" thinkers are taking on.

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