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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Position yourself in market segments that will grow.

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Does Your Company Come Across as Too Male?

Harvard Business Review

But since the most senior leadership teams are male-dominated, a lot of what happens in companies ends up reflecting that, including how they look and sound. After all, Red Bull and P&G were strategically going after a market segment they had chosen to focus on. Does it talk to everyone or does it skew one way or the other?

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. This approach works when the visionary firm can single-handedly build a new, attractive market reality.