Commentaries

Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

April 27, 2021

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Joseph and Ronald Klingebiel for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and…

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Here’s the secret sauce of consistent success for all businesses, year after year after year

April 25, 2021

In Better, Simpler Strategy, Felix Oberholzer-Gee recommends a strategy that could not be simpler: “create substantial value for customers, employees, or suppliers” consistently, year after year after year. This approach is best captured in a simple graph which he calls…

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Milton Friedman’s Unique Perspectives

April 23, 2021

Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler…

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Innovation Starts with Defining the Right Constraints

April 22, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Fiona Murray and Elsbeth Johnson for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…

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The organizational cost of insufficient sleep

April 16, 2021

Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article, one written by Nick van Dam and Els van der Helm for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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Don’t Let Self-Doubt Hold You Back

April 14, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alisa Cohn for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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The Mosaic That Is Information

April 9, 2021

One of the greatest challenges that organizations will continue to face in months and years to come is this: How to achieve and then retain a decisive advantage in a competitive marketplace that is increasingly more volatile, more uncertain, more…

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How capability building can power transformation

April 8, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Hugh Bachmann, Dominic Skerritt, and Elizabeth Young McNally for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and…

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They Are Giving Hemingway Another Look, So You Can, Too

April 7, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article by Gal Beckerman that appeared in The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. * * * Lynn Novick and…

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Twenty-five years of digitization: Ten insights into how to play it right

April 5, 2021

Here is an article by Jacques Bughin, James Manyika, and Tanguy Catlin — offering an introduction to an abundance of invaluable material in the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn…

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