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How the Very Best Strategists Decide

Harvard Business Review

To find out, I turned to my ongoing Top Pricer Tournament , in which 884 people — managers, consultants, professors, students — make pricing strategy decisions for a generic business competing against other generic businesses. In my workshops I ask people to create as many ideas as they can to prevent a bathtub from overflowing.

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The CIO as Corporate Psychic

Harvard Business Review

But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves.

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