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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

The basic goal of competition — companies need to out-compete in order to out-perform — is now holding back companies from financial success, such as the protected one described above. Third, the company could earn goodwill from the local communities in which it manufactures its products.

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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard Rumelt Crown Business (2011) How and why a good strategy “acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcome them” As the title of this review correctly indicates, Richard Rumelt is convinced (and I agree) that a good strategy can provides both a [.].