Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

According to Michael Porter, the essence of strategy is deciding what not to do. If your organization doesn't develop the discipline to do this, our wonderful free market system will. BusinessWeek published an article " Are You Losing Control of Your Business? " in which it advised: "No. 1 on your to-do list? Make a "stop doing" list".

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2016

Liza Heidelberger of MyLeaderSphere reminds us, that like two sides of the same coin, vision and strategy are essential to moving an organization forward. Michael Porter. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan Swift. Follow Lisa. .

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The Office Blend Blog

JANUARY 6, 2020

How to Move from Self-Awareness to Self-Improvement , Jennifer Porter, HBR. Small is Beautiful: Using Gentle Nudges to Change Organizations. Her training series The Core — helps people & organizations build a stronger work life foundation. The Dark Side of Resilience, Thomas Chamorro-Premuzic & Derek Lusk, HBR.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Dan Pontefract is the author of Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization. framework […].

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Size once gave organizations purchasing power. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. Once an organization got big, it took a lot to displace it.

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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. Todd Henry – Todd teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday brilliance. Would you like to meet my team?

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

Gallen in Switzerland, and Jochen Menges, lecturer in human resources and organizations at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. These key points stood out in his article: Busyness is not a virtue, and organizations need to stop rewarding and promoting people for their “hard work.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2016

Unsuccessful coaching engagements can mean wasted time and expense for the person being coached and the organization, and for these reasons everyone wants to avoid them! There are a few very excellent coaches in the corporate strategy domain, for instance Vijay Govindarajan and Michael Porter. You don’t coach integrity violations.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 5, 2013

Most are from business schools, others from a variety of fields relevant to leading organizations. Michael Porter. At LDRLB ( @LDRLB ), we draw much of our content from the research and writings of the world’s top professors. We thought it’d be worthwhile to share with you the people we learn the most from. Frank Piller.

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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.". One way to test how committed your organization is to your top goals is to get agreement on the projects and priorities in the organization that can be stopped. They need to learn what to stop.”

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LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most are from business schools, others from a variety of fields relevant to leading organizations. Michael Porter. At LDRLB ( @LDRLB ), we draw much of our content from the research and writings of the world’s top professors. We thought it’d be worthwhile to share with you the people we learn the most from. maxmckeown.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

It is excerpted from The Portable Guide to Leading Organizations, available now from LeaderLab Press. The positioning school is most closely associated with its undisputed champion, Harvard professor Michael Porter. This post is the third in a series about the various schools and models of making organizational strategy. In the [.]

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LDRLB

AUGUST 17, 2010

When reading Ruthless Focus , the parallels to two authors develop immediately: Collins and Porter. Likewise, the five strategies echo Porter’s competitive strategy model, where organizations select one of five market positions. The highlights of the book are the case studies.

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LDRLB

MAY 4, 2012

While it covers this, there are also hat tips to emergent strategy thought leaders by warning organizations to stay flexible. The second half of the book offers a survey of strategy tools, starting with SWOT and including everything from Porter’s Five Forces to BCG’s growth share matrix.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Do you like the confidence to go and do big things for God or in your organization? Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Cooper, his friend, knew Same still had potential. He could do great things in his life. Are you like Brenner? You have potential.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Michael Porter and Jim Heppelman explain how augmented reality will change how we work.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

”Overall, I found this book to be well-organized, yet a slow read because my brain kept exploding with ideas while reading selected units.” “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. Most importantly this book is about execution.” ” (Ethan Johnson, The Vision Thing).

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. The book is broken into 5 chapters, Canvas - which is the mental and physical model of how the authors Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur think about business.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Most likely you know plenty of them, since strategy tourists – those individuals who lack the motivation, skills and knowledge to turn a strategy into performance – can be found in abundance in most organizations. And an organization needs more heroes and fewer tourists, won’t you agree? I’m sure you also know some.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Today’s economy, he notes, is “replete with winner-take-all effects and huge advantages that accrue to the biggest and best-run organizations, to the detriment of upstarts and second-fiddle players.” Michael Porter would approve. Hastings is betting that Porter’s rules haven’t been repealed.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy Joan Magretta Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why organizations can achieve and then sustain competitive advantage, especially in turbulent and uncertain times Although this book offers – in my opinion — the single best introduction to the major insights (..)

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2016

He cofounded, and helps lead, two consulting organizations:… Read More David Evans and Dick Schmalensee on “The New Economics of Multisided Platforms”: An interview by Bob Morris. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

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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. Calculating Success: How the New Workplace Analytics Will Revitalize Your Organization. By Joan Magretta. By Carl Hoffmann, Eric Lesser, and Tim Ringo.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

We need someone to organize the off-site event — can you do that? We talk about why we wind up with so much office drudgery and how to get some of it off our plates. Guests: Lise Vesterlund and Ruchika Tulshyan. Could you take notes? Would you mind ordering lunch? Williams and Marina Multhaup. Kolb and Jessica L.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Aid organizations typically focus on how to transport aid to affected communities. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. Go climb a mountain. Question assumptions.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Aiming to jump start innovation in your organization? Aid organizations typically focus on how to transport aid to affected communities. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. Go climb a mountain. Question assumptions.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With the collaboration among different universities and organizations (e.g. The grant supports universities in developing governance frameworks for VTL, VTL development for skill-based training, and enriching the educational experience of VTL through professional development and technology/infrastructure development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Consider Porter's value chain. Where only the largest organizations could operate 24-hour call centers, today, even small organizations have access to companies like Global Response. I disagreed with her suggestion that Porter's concept was no longer relevant in what she's dubbed the social era.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Instead, Porter urges a different kind of competition: compete to be unique. What's your organization's underlying model of how competition works? In fact, it's practically a guarantee of mediocre performance.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 29, 2013

Obviously, companies must incorporate interaction with stakeholders into decision making at every level of the organization. That’s much easier said than done, however.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

For example, when Caitlin Zaino, Founder of Porter & Sail, a hospitality company, was expecting her first child, she was desperate find an example of another female founder who’d juggled childbirth and running a startup. The firm is now in its second year, with a team of 13, and zero attrition by new parents.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

But very few have made that purpose a reality for their organizations. Even so, very few companies excel at operationalizing their purpose, which organizes human effort at a deeper level. Skeezer/Getty Images. Most companies have articulated their purpose — the reason they exist. Consider Nokia.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Flags, whether the kind that unfurls or the type that hangs on the walls of board rooms and break rooms, convey the identity of the organization, country or brigade. renowned Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter was invited to lead a strategic planning meeting. Dr. Porter is here to start our strategic planning meeting.

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