Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 10, 2014
Professor Donald Sull calls it active inertia, an organization’s tendency to follow established patterns of behavior. Blockbuster, Eastman Kodak, and Borders are but a handful of companies where process became habit and values became dogma, resulting in those companies becoming history. People do the same thing.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2011
Posted in Leadership Development Barry wasn’t happy that his boss put him through the 360 evaluation process. He was even unhappier after receiving the feedback. In fact, he was shocked, angry and disbelieving. There was no way he was unethical, thoughtless or lacking in credibility and integrity.
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Skip Prichard
JUNE 28, 2019
” The Power of Questions. Talk about the power of a good question to crack complexity. “A A really, really good question has the power to be your anchor in that boiling sea of doubt. 1] Defined in HBR’s Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It (Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull, MARCH 2015).
Harvard Business Review
JULY 22, 2015
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. Despite the internet and cheap, super-powerful computers, people aren’t seeing a lot of opportunity to challenge incumbents. Those competitive advantages are real.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 12, 2015
And so, he famously argued, in addition to the fierceness of price competition among industry rivals, the degree of competitiveness in an industry (that is, the degree to which players are free to set their own prices) depends on the bargaining power of buyers and of suppliers, as well as how threatening substitute products and new entrants are.
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