Richard Rumelt

HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 14, 2023

HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) How to communicate the plan, maintain momentum, and achieve your vision I agree with Thomas Edison who once observed, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Even the…

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Sentient Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

May 1, 2023

Sentient Strategy: How to Create Market-Dominating Strategies in Turbulent Economies Alan Weiss Routledge/An imprint of Taylor & Francis Group (March 2023) “The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.”  Steven Wright In the Introduction,…

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The Emergent Approach to Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

July 9, 2022

The Emergent Approach to Strategy Peter Compo Business Expert Press (July 2022) “The essence of strategy is choosing what NOT to do.” Michael Porter As Peter Compo explains in this book, “Strategy testing is a time-honored practice. Well-known tests include…

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Strategic Thinking: Key Points

April 18, 2022

Here is some essential information provided by the MasterClass staff. To check out other valuable resources, please click here. * * * What Is Strategic Thinking? Strategic thinkers excel at problem-solving, decision-making, and developing realistic action plans to achieve specific…

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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

June 6, 2017

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard Rumelt Crown Business (2011) How and why a good strategy “acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcome them As the title of this review correctly indicates,…

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Key Value Drivers: Do’s & Don’ts

February 20, 2012

A key value driver (KVD) is any variable that drives value for shareholders. But few firms can identify their KVDs and thus use them for forecasting and improvement. Identifying your KVDs requires a deep understanding of your business and much…

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6 Lessons We Could Learn from Steve Jobs

October 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Margaret Heffernan for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click…

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Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

August 9, 2011

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters Richard Rumelt Crown Business (2011) How and why a good strategy “acknowledges the challenges being faced and provides an approach to overcome them As the title of this review correctly indicates,…

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The perils of bad strategy

July 12, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another outstanding article, written by Richard Rumelt and featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online. To read the complete article, please click here. *     *     * Bad strategy abounds, says UCLA management professor Richard Rumelt. Senior…

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