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Retail Disruptors: A book review by Bob Morris

November 26, 2018

Retail Disruptors: The Spectacular Rise and Impact of the Hard Discounters Jan-Benedict Steenkamp with Laurens Sloot KoganPage (October 2018) With Laurens Sloot, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp lifts “the veil of secrecy covering hard discounters” During an interview of Clayton Christensen, I asked…

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Women in Leadership: An interview of Andrea Cartwright, Supergroup

April 21, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Andrea Cartwright, group HR director for Supergroup. It was conducted by Primeast: “Since 1987, we have been facilitating performance improvement in the fields of Leadership, Organisational Change and Teamwork, with purposeful organisations…

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The Innovator’s Hypothesis: A book review by Bob Morris

November 10, 2014

The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas Michael Schrage The MIT Press (2014) How and why “simple, fast, cheap, smart, lean, and important experiments can supercharge any serious innovation process” As I began to read…

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The seven traits of effective digital enterprises

August 8, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tunde Olanrewaju, Kate Smaje, and Paul Willmott for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They explain how and why, to stay competitive, companies must stop experimenting with digital…

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How to Make Your Organization Anti-Fragile

June 28, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Terry Leahy (Tesco) in “The Corner Office”

February 4, 2013

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Terry Leahy, the former C.E.O.…

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The Three Questions That Lead to Profitable Growth

November 10, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Zook for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please…

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