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Six Ways to Grow Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter. One of my students, a mid-sized company CFO, told me that every budget season he personally went through all the budgets to identify inefficiencies.

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The Economically Out-of-Date Nation-State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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