The Practical Leader

AUGUST 10, 2021

Things that matter most — team dynamics, key strategic priorities, and organization change and development efforts — are often crowded out by things that matter least — firefighting operational issues better managed by those closest to the action. Fall is a popular time for strategic planning sessions.

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Team Strategic Planning Porter Leadership 69

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Let me start by reassuring you: the chances that you are a strategy tourist are close to zero. But I’m sure you do know a strategy tourist. They like to restart a new strategy exercise every year. I call the opposite of a strategy tourist a Strategy Execution hero. THE STRATEGY TOURIST: 20 BEHAVIORS.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

According to Michael Porter, the essence of strategy is deciding what not to do. If your organization doesn't develop the discipline to do this, our wonderful free market system will. BusinessWeek published an article " Are You Losing Control of Your Business? " in which it advised: "No. 1 on your to-do list?

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

” Unclear organizational strategy and confusing priorities lead people to busy themselves doing what they think matters. Harvard professor and strategy expert, Michael Porter, says, “the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Busyness reduces engagement and increases absenteeism.

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Kaplan Porter Absenteeism Participative 52

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

He also holds the role of Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS where he is responsible for the overarching leadership development, learning and collaboration strategy for the company where he introduced the TELUS Leadership Philosophy and the Learning 2.0 framework […].

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Hamel Porter Wilde Drucker 75

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. Would you like to meet my team? Amy Cuddy – She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 17, 2010

So when Wally offered to send me a review copy of Ruthless Focus: How to Use Key Core Strategies to Grow Your Business , I was excited (and to be honest, flattered). Hall and Bock argue that lasting companies ruthlessly focus on their core strategy. They offer a simple definition of strategy. and “How are we going to make money?”

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Review Books Collins Porter 74

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2022

Porter’s Five Forces. Negotiation . Innovation . Proposal writing . Task delegation . People management . Dealing with stress. Technological savviness. Six Sigma techniques. Data analysis. Web analytics. A/B Testing. B2B Marketing. Best Resume Tips. So you’re ready to write the resume of your dreams. Excellent!

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Skills Six Sigma Porter B2B 111

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

This is what a young person experiences from age 12 to 22, when the all-important pre-frontal lobes of the brain are developing. At a time when they are developing adult bodies, their adult brains are slowly, slowly forming. I've studied brain development for years. It's a time of confusion, mistakes, pain and danger.

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Porter Education Influence Development 86

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Anyone taking the time to delve into the literature of strategy quickly realizes that there are two fiercely opposed camps. Michael Porter is credited with (or more often accused of) creating TPS in 1980 —positing that a firm should think about positioning itself in its industry in a way that enables it to achieve competitive advantage.

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RBV Resources Positioning Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

Today, too many strategists believe that a clever plan to win the internet’s attention is a good digital strategy. What every institution needs  —  and what every leader needs to develop  —  before a “digital strategy” is a human strategy. It’s not.

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Strategy Porter Marketing Fashion 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship. Specifically, his… Read More Jim Dewald on “Entrepreneurial Thinking”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 21, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship. Specifically, his… Read More Jim Dewald on “Entrepreneurial Thinking”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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Strategy CPA Gordon Welch 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Among my questions to them: How are you thinking about strategy these days? Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. This poses a dilemma for consulting firms.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy Joan Magretta Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why organizations can achieve and then sustain competitive advantage, especially in turbulent and uncertain times Although this book offers – in my opinion — the single best introduction to the major insights (..)

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Porter Review Competitive Advantage Books 113

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article in January's HBR tries to advance our world's shared values by arguing that doing right is the best long-term business strategy. If our interest is in building a better world, then " Don't be evil " is a better guide than "Incorporate shared value as a key part of your business strategy.".

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Porter Morale Supply Chain Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. Develop a strategy that doesn't simply rely on being the biggest. Develop a vision of the future. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 11

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Through asking questions and listening to experts, Matt’s team picked up insights that informed the aid strategy they eventually landed on. Matt’s team concentrated on developing a system to get aid to remote villages in the heavily-damaged Gorkha region. What issues and challenges were other aid providers facing? Help one family?

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Through asking questions and listening to experts, Matt’s team picked up insights that informed the aid strategy they eventually landed on. Matt’s team concentrated on developing a system to get aid to remote villages in the heavily-damaged Gorkha region. What issues and challenges were other aid providers facing? Help one family?

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Maximizing the effectiveness of physicians and nurses in these new positions, however, will require different skills than the ones they developed during their clinical training. To accelerate the development of their people-management skills, clinicians should partner closely with fellow business leaders and HR professionals.

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Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. But if you are a services company, your ability to quickly develop young talent could be your secret sauce. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. But if you are a services company, your ability to quickly develop young talent could be your secret sauce. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Equally important, firms’ efforts to develop their core capabilities change focus to emphasize growing partnerships, not always build internal capabilities—so that understanding how others in the ecosystem make money becomes important to long-term success. For some industries, those basic strategies still hold true today.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 15, 2010

Too many of us work to develop and use “best practices&# – few of which have to do with attitude. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. You are the soul of generosity Reply Landon Creasy August 16, 2010 at 6:30 pm Great post Gwyn!

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Hotels Leadership Blog Porter 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

And management techniques, practices, and strategies are no different. It relates to what Michael Porter meant with being “stuck in the middle”: if you try to come up with a strategy that does everything for everyone, you will likely end up achieving nothing. Strategy' When might it not work; what could be its drawbacks?

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Management Learning Curve Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. Some may not have attractive social or environmental strategies; some may have misalignment between those strategies and the overall corporate strategy; and some may have incomplete measures of social or environmental practices. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. Can you drive both new opportunities and new behavior within your organization while achieving social impact?

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. The business strategy of competing with scale mirrors what military generals do in combat. The military head-to-head battle strategy has a business equivalent. There is a lesson here for business.

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Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Yet although the lay observer can understand the reasons for these corporate break-ups, the frameworks and ideas that underpin strategy theory are actually pretty unhelpful when considering whether or not to initiate a break-up. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy? Strategy'

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RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. We also found seven other reasons Africa’s economy might leapfrog the economies of more developed nations.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal. It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ).

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

For example, when Caitlin Zaino, Founder of Porter & Sail, a hospitality company, was expecting her first child, she was desperate find an example of another female founder who’d juggled childbirth and running a startup. Bryan Bennett also emphasized the benefits of family-friendly policies to his talent strategy.

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Porter Policies Attrition Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. It would be awkward to pick sides between two old friends about the strategy of a school where I taught for more than twenty years. But I dont have to.  it kept the online venture separate, organizationally and operationally.

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Christensen Education Discount Class 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S. The graveyard of startups is filled with innovators lured by glamour to let others take over their concept before it was fully developed. Entrepreneurship Innovation Strategy'

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Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy' Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? which argued that operational excellence alone is not strategy, and that the truly enduring companies create a unique customer experience. My experiences as head of the Global Strategy Practice at Bain & Company for the past 15 years have confirmed this belief.

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Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8