1338 Posts Found

Ever wonder why people have difficulty with commitment – what’s wrong with this picture?

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy

It’s the essence of competition: big versus little, strong versus slight, heavy versus light. Now imagine that you’re the one who’s little, slight, and light! How do you use your opponent’s strengths to your advantage? Take a lesson from former judo champ Jimmy Pedro.

Content: Article | Author: Jill Rosenfeld | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Strategy

Content: Book | Authors: Henry Mintzberg, James Brian Quinn | Subjects: Case Related, Strategy

A general must see alone and know alone, meaning that he must see what others do not see and know what others do not know. Seeing what others do not see is called brilliance, knowing what others do not know is called genius. Brilliant geniuses win first, meaning that they defend in such a way as to be unassailable and attack in such a way … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy

A century ago, King Camp Gillette created a business cliche – and made a fortune – by practically giving away his products. Does his idea make any sense today?

Content: Article | Author: Richard Martin | Source: The Industry Standard | Subject: Strategy

Now you see it. And then you don’t. The emerging economy that will dominate the next century will be governed by a series of factors or “discontinuities” that managers need to prepare for.

Content: Article | Author: C.K. Prahalad | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

Core ideology, core values, core purpose, “big hairy audacious goals” and envisioned future – from an HBR feature by James Collins and Jerry Porras.

Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Content: Book | Authors: Brian Tarcy, J. Peter Duncan, Peter Duncan, Robert W. Bradford | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Strategy and culture are arguably the most used and abused words in the business lexicon. So to discuss the creation and sustenance of a strategic culture as a source of competitive advantage is inviting trouble. Yet it is necessary to do so since this notion is a valuable one for strategists. Read on for Kepner-Tregoe’s 12 key drivers to ingrain this strategic culture.

Content: Article | Author: Mike Freedman | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Strategy

What are the organizational and environmental factors that precede the adoption of a certain strategy – and do environmental factors in particular, as perceived by managers, influence the formulation of strategies? In other words, are strategies limited only by the perception and imagination of a manager?

Content: Article | Authors: Donald L. Lester, John A. Parnell, Michael L. Menefee | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Strategy

Harvard Business School professor David B. Yoffie takes the martial arts into the executive suite. Your rivals will flip over his ideas (if you apply them right).

Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Reingold | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Many purchasing organizations are being challenged to increase the level of “global sourcing” to tap into promising opportunities and to fend off competition. Unfortunately, many companies are ill equipped for the challenge: though global sourcing employs the same set of activities as domestic sourcing, there is also greater complexity. Based on our experience, most companies need to enhance the skills of their purchasing organizations to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: C.V. Ramachandran, Timothy M. Laseter, Tonya M. Leary | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Operations, Strategy

What does it take to grow shareholder value at world-class rates? For many years companies have successfully focused their efforts on cost reduction through increased labor and asset productivity and have achieved short-term increases in shareholder value as a reward. Today, with their businesses re-engineered and running efficiently, these companies have refocused their energies into developing long-term growth strategies. Aggressive revenue-oriented strategies are the most … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Charles E. Lucier, Leslie H. Moeller, Raymond Held | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Best Practices, Strategy

The ways of thinking that underlie strategy formulation are seldom addressed in business textbooks. But principles, or at least guides, can be reverse engineered by careful review of business case studies. The author has assembled some of these and presents them in a skeletal form in hopes they offer a useful checklist and
food for thought as to how leaders think.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Albano | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Strategy

Strategy is indivisible. Remove one part or take away the bridges and the glue that ties the parts together and you don’t have strategy, but tactics. Tactics are the elements that relate to the execution of the strategy. Those elements are discrete and divisible and can be examined and evaluated separately.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy

Therefore those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their forces. Those who do not use local guides cannot take advantage of the ground. The military of an effective rulership must know all these things.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competition, Competitive Intelligence

Rather than propose rules for the entire economy, Professors Vijay Mahajan (McCombs) and Jerry Wind (Wharton) focus their proposals on marketing. As contributing editors of the forthcoming book, Digital Marketing: Global Strategies from the World’s Leading Experts, Mahajan and Wind are out to reshape their discipline. What follows are key points paraphrased from Mahajan’s and Wind’s new rules for digital marketing, with selected excerpts from … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Texas – The McCombs School of Business Magazine | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Strategy

It is a tribute to the durability and universality of the ideas of Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz that his famous work On War has been excerpted in this 2001 book for business readers. The authors have done a fine job of condensing Clausewitz’s massive, unfinished tome and have coupled it with an excellent commentary.

Content: Book | Authors: Bolko von Oetinger, Christopher Bassford, Tiha von Ghyczy | Subject: Strategy

The contour of the land is an aid to an army; sizing up opponents to determine victory, assessing dangers and distances, is the proper course of action for military leaders. Those who do battle knowing these will win, those who do battle without knowing these will lose.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competition, Competitive Intelligence

In general, the pattern of invasion is that invaders become more intense the farther they enter alien territory, to the point where the native rulership cannot overcome them.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Competition