First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In contrast, strategic positioning means performing [.]. It refers to any number of practices that allow a company to better utilize its inputs by, for example, reducing defects in products or developing better products faster.

Porter 115

Porter Reference Strategy Efficiency 115

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2016

In the post, You are enough , Lisa Kohn from Thoughtful Leaders Blog reminds us that vision and strategy are only effective when we come from a position of strength, and why we should therefore give up trying to prove anything to anyone, and more importantly, to even yourself. Michael Porter. Follow Lisa. . Follow Alli.

Strategic Planning 180

Strategic Planning Porter Follow-up Guidelines 180

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

And that's where Michael Porter enters the picture. Porter's work provides that rigor, as it defines the economic fundamentals of competition and strategy. And most important for managers, Porter's five tests of good strategy can help you to tell the difference between good choices and bad. Jim Collins, meet Mike Porter.

Porter 15

Porter Collins Competitive Advantage Strategy 15

Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2017

It is to: Help successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in their behavior. Michael Porter is another great coach in this domain. So, most executive coaches are doing what I do, helping leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior. My mission is simple.

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Mission Statement Govindarajan Executive Coaching Porter 70

Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2011

He first met “Doc” Porter in the early seventies and they click almost immediately. Elias Porter’s Relationship Awareness Theory , on which the book is based, resonated with my Dad. If we’re pulled into conflict ourselves, we’re usually not in a great position to help others.” You can look at personal strengths like behaviors.

Self-aware 264

Self-aware Porter Discount Tools 264

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2016

There are a few very excellent coaches in the corporate strategy domain, for instance Vijay Govindarajan and Michael Porter. I’m in the 90%, and what we do is help leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior. Most though, perhaps as much as 90%, are behavioral coaches with backgrounds in psychology or organizational behavior.

Govindarajan 101

Govindarajan Executive Coaching Porter Pharmaceuticals 101

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. Emma Seppälä – Her areas of research include positive organizational psychology, health psychology, cultural psychology, well-being, and resilience.

Porter 150

Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

We talk about “social businesses” — those that are mission-led and focused on creating positive social change — and “non-social businesses” — those that focus on revenue and profit. I believe the distinction between social and non-social business is a false dichotomy.

Business Model 175

Business Model Venture Capitalist B2C Entrepreneur 175

LDRLB

AUGUST 17, 2010

When reading Ruthless Focus , the parallels to two authors develop immediately: Collins and Porter. Likewise, the five strategies echo Porter’s competitive strategy model, where organizations select one of five market positions. The highlights of the book are the case studies.

Review 74

Review Books Collins Porter 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Well, if you're Michael Porter it isn't quite enough: I ran into him yesterday here at Davos and the first thing he said was something along the lines of, "You need more copies of HBR here." And even Porter doesn't try to impose his framework on the discussion of government's role in society. Says Porter when Mahindra is done: "A.

Porter 14

Porter Licensing Article Finance 14

LDRLB

MAY 4, 2012

The Strategy Book goes beyond simple planning models of picking a market position. The second half of the book offers a survey of strategy tools, starting with SWOT and including everything from Porter’s Five Forces to BCG’s growth share matrix.

Strategy 74

Strategy Books SWOT Porter 74

Mills Scofield

MAY 17, 2013

Many of us who work in the civic arena – that wonderful yet perplexing place where the public, private, philanthropic and nonprofit worlds intersect – are frustrated by the lack of innovation that results in sustained positive change. As Michael Porter has said, “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”

Environment 166

Environment Innovation Porter Education 166

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Real leaders aren’t in a position of leadership to gain recognition. I’ve been in Sam’s position before. There will be many times when you will lack any knowledge in an important subject matter.

Cooper 120

Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In the red corner we have the “ positioning school ” (TPS) and in the white we have the “ resource-based view of the firm ” (RBV). The main (though not only) criticism it levels at TPS is that for positioning to work, market structures have to be stable—and they are not. Think about it.

RBV 8

RBV Resources Positioning Strategy 8

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Co-opted Board Member Ms Janice Tai also talked about her journey towards becoming a Chartered Manager and how this accreditation has empowered her career advancement in her position at an international non-governmental organisation. He holds a number of other voluntary positions.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter's most important insights for managers. Understanding Porter's strategy fundamentals will help you to avoid them. In industry after industry, Porter notes that economies of scale are exhausted at a relatively small share of industry sales. Mistake #1. Mistake #5.

Strategy 15

Strategy Porter ROIC Competitive Advantage 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

Review 85

Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Instead, Porter urges a different kind of competition: compete to be unique. This approach produces positive sum competition. In fact, it's practically a guarantee of mediocre performance. Profitability deteriorates.

Porter 19

Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 15, 2010

The hotel staff was upbeat, positive and friendly. If there is a misalignment of values between the leader and those who follow, then generally, a less than positive working environment is the result and poor attitudes tend to prevail. Here, we were warmly welcomed. The wait staff was more than accommodating.

Hotels 52

Hotels Leadership Blog Porter 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

The payoff is that it puts the firm in a position to drive those relative costs even lower as competition unfolds due to the learning curve advantage. One then became two in 1980, when Michael Porter pointed out that there is another way to compete: differentiation.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Porter Henderson Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question. When profits embody societal benefits, a positive cycle of company and community prosperity will lead to profits that endure. Nor does political rebellion serve companies or their shareholders well.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

— has now put American employers in an untenable position. In fact, as Kaplan and Michael Porter describe in a recent HBR article, "To put it bluntly, there is an almost complete lack of understanding of how much it costs to deliver patient care, much less how those costs compare with the outcomes achieved." Adam Smith 4eva!

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 20

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

For example, when Caitlin Zaino, Founder of Porter & Sail, a hospitality company, was expecting her first child, she was desperate find an example of another female founder who’d juggled childbirth and running a startup. The firm is now in its second year, with a team of 13, and zero attrition by new parents.

Porter 8

Porter Policies Attrition Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

From 697 to 1797 AD, Venice’s technological acumen, geographic position, and unconventionality were interlocking advantages that allowed the Most Serene Republic to flourish. And its position at the top of the Adriatic Sea allowed it to become a vital trading hub, connecting the East with the West via the Mediterranean.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. For decades, strategy gurus have been telling firms to differentiate.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Mauborgne Competitive Advantage Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

As Brabeck-Letmathe declared in Nestlé’s 2016 CSV report , which quantifies the company’s annual progress across a comprehensive set of key performance indicators: “Creating Shared Value is our way of delivering a long-term positive impact for shareholders and society, through everything that we do as a company.”

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Maximizing the effectiveness of physicians and nurses in these new positions, however, will require different skills than the ones they developed during their clinical training. When thrust into a management or leadership position, many clinicians have never hired or fired anyone in their life. People leadership.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

It relates to what Michael Porter meant with being “stuck in the middle”: if you try to come up with a strategy that does everything for everyone, you will likely end up achieving nothing. If the presenter’s answer is “there are none,” a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted. But it seems some organizations do pull it off.

Management 12

Management Learning Curve Short-term Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In Operation Desert Storm , more than 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait, fixed themselves into strategic positions — in front lines — to combat U.S. This means understanding Porter's five competitive forces since each of those forces is a flank through which competitors can attack.

Porter 14

Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

My research was based on an econometric methodology (initially design by Michael Porter and Scott Stern, but refined by myself and Richard Hayes) designed to forecast a country's innovative capacity — that is, not what innovation is taking place but instead what innovation is likely to occur in the future.

Innovation 14

Innovation Porter Rogers Human Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

We talk about "social businesses" — those that are mission-led and focused on creating positive social change — and "non-social businesses" — those that focus on revenue and profit. I believe the distinction between social and non-social business is a false dichotomy. And yet, it's one we continually want to make.

Venture Capitalist 10

Venture Capitalist Business Model B2C Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. And finally, focusing on current relative positions discounts the importance of technological changewhich, over time, will make online models more competitive. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And

Christensen 15

Christensen Education Discount Class 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. It helped him both discover an interest in consulting and move into an advisory position two years later.

Porter 11

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? A company's unique "core" capabilities are its crown jewels, although they are all too often taken for granted with the result that execution issues are frequently confused with competitive positioning and strategy. Here are just a few of the highlights.

Goleman 8

Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

The title comes from Alan Greenspan's now-famous admission to a Congressional committee in 2008 — "I have found a flaw in the model that defines how the world works" — and as best I can tell it posits that extreme income inequality was a precipitating factor behind the financial crisis. It certainly left an impression on Sorrell.

Porter 15

Porter Trends Policies Film 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

Regardless of how well-positioned you are, how thoughtfully you've planned for the future, or how well you satisfy customers, your strategic plan will not always be on target. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. Business is dynamic. By 3-D printing?

Technology 15

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15