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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2013

Leading Blog

Lafley and Roger L. Where Winners Live : Sell More, Earn More, Achieve More Through Personal Accountability by Dave Porter and Linda Galindo. Playing to Win : How Strategy Really Works by A.G. American Turnaround : Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA by Edward Whitacre with Leslie Cauley.

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2013 Top Professors on Twitter

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Michael Porter. Roger Martin. Frank Piller. RWTH Aachen University. masscustom. Bob Sutton. Professor, Stanford University. work_matters. Bill Fischer. IMD Business School. bill_fischer. Harvard Business School. MichaelEPorter. Estelle Metayer. McGill University. Rita McGrath. Columbia Business School. Ioannis Ioannou. iioannoulbs.

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Playing to Win: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” ” — Michael Porter I am pleased that A.G. Lafley has co-authored another book, with Roger Martin, after previously co-authoring The Game Changer with Ram Charan. Whereas in the [.].

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Don't Let a Spreadsheet Decide Where You Locate Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter's article in the March issue of HBR on choosing the United States makes the point that in choosing where to locate even high value-adding business activities, many companies don't do a very thorough costs/benefits analysis. They tend to focus on the obvious and most easily measured benefits (lower wage costs, tax rates, etc.)

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Capitalism's Mea Culpa; Humanism's Opportunity?

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, Michael Porter wonders if we have missed out on what's good about sustainability , and suggests a new approach. Roger Martin is on to something when he declares that the future of business thinking lies in the ability to be ambidextrous.

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Is Canada's Innovation Performance Really So Bad?

Harvard Business Review

The report came from a task force led by Rotman School of Management Dean and HBR contributor Roger Martin. On June 1st, Canada's Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity released a new, large report on Canada's Innovation Imperative. It paints a worrying picture of Canadian innovation.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.

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