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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recently listened to a book - Simple Rules - How to Thrive in a Complex World by Donald Sull. I know one of the best geniuses for writers or marketers is to simplify and Sull does that well in this book. It is a great book that explains not only why simple rules work but how you can develop them. Simple rules work because: 1.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

In one of the most valuable business books written in recent years, The Upside of Turbulence: Seizing Opportunity in an Uncertain World published by HarperBusiness, Donald Sull describes what he characterizes as active inertia: “the tendency of well-established organizations to respond to changes by accelerating activities that succeeded in the past. (..)

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JUNE 28, 2019

David Komlos is CEO of Syntegrity and David Bejamin leads Syntegrity’s client delivery organization. 1] Defined in HBR’s Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It (Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull, MARCH 2015). That’s why I was interested to see how David Komlos and David Benjamin tackled the subject.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Puzzling anecdotes abound: Microsoft has missed out on a series of new products in the past decade, yet as Don Sull points out , it continues to be highly profitable. Taking a cue from Don Sull, we can distinguish between two types of competition. In a competitive economy you tend to get lots of little, focused companies.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 1, 2012

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance. LEGO is a great example.

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