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“We should not underestimate the significance of large, enduring firms.” Marcus Wallenberg

October 26, 2014

In separate mini-commentaries, former SEB chairman Marcus Wallenberg and Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata both argue that creative destruction can be taken too far.  Both mini-commentaries are part of a series celebrating the 50th anniversary of McKinsey Quarterly. Wallenberg shares his…

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LEAN Supply Chain Planning: A book review by Bob Morris

July 19, 2014

LEAN Supply Chain Planning: The New Supply Chain Management Paradigm for Process Industries to Master Today’s VUCA World Josef Packowski CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group (2014) How to thrive in a VUCA world Of all the areas of operation that…

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And the winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012 is…

November 9, 2012

Steve Coll’s Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, published by Penguin Press and Allen Lane. The book is a hard-hitting investigation of the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and closing with the Deepwater…

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Why it is imperative to hire for attitude

January 25, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article by Dan Schawbel and featured online at the Forbes website. In it, Mark Murphy explains why a job candidate’s attitude is more important than talent, skills, and experience.  To read the complete article,…

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