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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Strategy, it follows for Porter, is a matter of working out your company’s best position relative not just to pricing pressures from rivals but to all the forces in your competitive environment. Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”).