leaderCommunicator
JUNE 28, 2019
Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. To survive and thrive in today’s market, a healthy corporate culture is more important than ever.
Skip Prichard
JUNE 28, 2019
The tight timeframe and “what must we all start working on” clause pushed people from platitudes like ‘working smarter’ or ‘being more innovative’ into concrete actions, including which sacred cow projects to stop. Don’t treat your stated strategy as a given if it’s not. Leadership Tip: Don’t be afraid of how people will react.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 12, 2015
It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” Strategies for staying ahead. He was hardly alone — that was evidently how most economists thought about competition, too. Insight Center.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2015
It is nearly impossible to translate — let alone execute – a strategy that you don’t understand. Isn’t that exactly what a strategy should do — help teams and leaders decide the right thing to do in the face of new threats and opportunities? As a result, most leaders score a C- in strategy comprehension.
First Friday Book Synopsis
NOVEMBER 25, 2012
I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities Around the World Yves Doz and Keeley Wilson Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition (Second Edition) Dennis N.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2014
I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance. When Innovation Is Strategy.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 22, 2015
Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. Puzzling anecdotes abound: Microsoft has missed out on a series of new products in the past decade, yet as Don Sull points out , it continues to be highly profitable. It’s become part of the conventional wisdom.
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