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Leading Thoughts for April 16, 2020

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Source: The Power of Simplicity by Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. The surprising truth is that success does not spring from anything inside yourself at all.

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The Art of Science

Mills Scofield

Here is Nick''s powerful story of how Science is Art and Art is Science. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. I have this thing about Blue Lobsters, seeing them in Maine and as a metaphor for innovation in that this rare phenotype results from serendipity and random collisions of genes.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. The ensuing waves of globalization and technological progress brought great benefits to American firms and consumers. Competitiveness Project.