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Strategy as a Problem Solving Process

Strategy Driven

These comments by Mehrdad Baghai, strategist and author, commend our book Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill that Changes Everything. How you disaggregate or cleave a problem has a big impact on the insight you get into a problem. Complex problems can rarely be solved without breaking the larger problem into parts.

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From Zipcar to the Sharing Economy

Harvard Business Review

But in the world of new "sharing economy" models that generate efficiency gains, theirs is just the tip of the iceberg. True, they pioneered the creative use of technology to open up flexible new ways of renting a car. Sadly, the Zipcar culture may not survive the merger. One of my favorite classroom examples is GirlMeetsDress.)

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Traditional Strategy Is Dead. Welcome to the #SocialEra

Harvard Business Review

The failing organizations around us — many of which I explore in my new book , which publishes today — continue to follow the operating rules and ethos of Traditional Strategy. It allowed for greater efficiency to do the same things that were done in the industrial era. Here's the simplest way to define the Social Era.