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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Motivating people requires more than overcoming organizational hurdles and winning people’s trust with fair process. Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. It also rests on aligned and fair incentives.

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business Review

” Today retail is in the process of being reinvented once again, and Toys “R” Us has failed to keep up, as economics in the industry have shifted against it. Most people of a certain age today remember the thrill of a visit to the endless aisles of wonderful things, each box promising hours of fabulous play.

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