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3 Ways To Harness The Power Of Differences

Lead Change Blog

Until…there’s too much of it, and its dark side surfaces: lack of innovation, narrow-minded thinking, ingrained and unquestioned bias, outdated practices, and failure to grow as a person. If ignored or met with intolerance or indifference, these dissimilarities can be divisive, even lethal for career or business success.

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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

This easily leads to miscommunication, misunderstanding and misalignment (from the start) about what the problem is, what success looks like, why it matters, and what’s at stake. Apply these 8 key success factors for execution in the complex domain. ” The Power of Questions. Tips to Ask Good Questions.

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Business Competition Has Not Gotten Fiercer

Harvard Business Review

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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Is It Better to Be Strategic or Opportunistic?

Harvard Business Review

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.

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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.”