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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same.

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Beyond Core Competence

Harvard Business Review

To survive, it has stopped selling film cameras, focusing on the digital ones that dominate the market. Organizations such as IBM and GE have adapted over the years to remain competitive in the market. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones.

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When a Spinoff Makes Strategic Sense

Harvard Business Review

This theory states that success is dependent on positioning your business in a profitable market, where it will have or can gain a competitive advantage. The print business remains in an unattractive market, and the media business remains in an attractive market. My own solution is to add a concept to the RBV.

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Whose Capitalism is it Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

Take what seem to be the three central tenants of capitalism as we know it: competition , the pursuit of financial gain , and the basic geography of power. It's obvious why every CEO and strategist would want it, but it does not produce the benefits that competition is meant to produce.".

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