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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

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The More Things Change, the More They Don't Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. Many business people, especially if they have been trained in microeconomics, think in terms of "comparative statics" rather than dynamics. The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Pro: Engineering can focus on coding without a lot of distraction; this tends to work well for Waterfall development shops with long lifecycles. Eriksson, Banfield and Walkingshaw ’s book Product Leadership has a section that has a lot more detail on this topic). They also have more influence and authority over company resources.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

In Rich’s old, functional “silo-based” process, a marketing person with a new customer opportunity would contact their favorite R&D associate, the regulatory and quality assurance departments, packaging, and the plant. Throughout these years of cultural transformation, Intuit’s leadership support has been constant.