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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets. We anticipate that in the 2015 ranking there will be more Chinese representatives but that these will also be drawn from academia. This compares with just one in 2011.)

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”