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The real deal on how to join a Board

Roundtable Talk

Guest panellists David Anderson (The Anderson Governance Group), Sharon Ranson (The Ranson Group) and Holly Henderson (Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation) shared their best tips and here’s a roundup for those who weren’t able to snag one of our limited seats. . Be sure you feel great about the cause.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. As BCG’s founder, Bruce Henderson, once stated , “The first definition of a problem is inescapably intuitive.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”

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Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman

Harvard Business Review

This morning I finally finished it (it's a short book, and much of it is fascinating, but I would definitely not call it a page-turner). Not that we'd get much more definitive guidance that that. So I checked a copy out of Widener Library and started reading. Book report to come.).