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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Learn to identify other tourists and bond as hard as you can. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career.

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Creating Shared Value vs. Leveraged Social Programs

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, writing in HBR ( December, 2006 and January-February, 2011 ), advance the idea of creating shared value by developing strategies and policies that enhance the competitiveness of the company while advancing social and economic conditions of the community.

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The Economically Out-of-Date Nation-State

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter, the godfather of business strategy, has gotten a lot of attention lately for trying to apply his model of competitive dynamics to the current plight of the United States — high unemployment, crushing healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure, and widespread indebtedness.

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