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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 Kevin E. Lofton chief executive…
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Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art Nico Israel Columbia University Press (2015) How and why the spiral may well be the defining image, symbol, and metaphor for the early-21st century What’s with spirals? According to Nico Israel,…
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In this competitive marketplace, an organization’s ability to innovate by staying ahead of the competition and delivering products that command the market’s attention is more important than ever. As co-founder and chief operating officer of HGTV, Susan Packard was the…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Ewan Duncan and Ron Ritter for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They explain how and why Lean-production techniques have been revolutionizing operations for 50 years. Advances in…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Claus Benkert and Nick van Dam for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Their thesis is that successful transformations demand new capabilities. To build them, experiential learning leverages…
Read MoreRalph Young is a history professor at Temple University. He has done extensive research in the history of protest movements, terrorist organizations, and 17th-century Puritanism. He is the author of Dissent: The History of an American Idea, a narrative history…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by David Gray for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. It first appeared in the November 2003 issue and, if anything, makes even more and better sense now than it…
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We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business Daniel Korshun and Grant Welker AMACOM (2015) The Market Basket story “forces us to rethink who really owns a company and who gets to…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from an article written by Marc de Jong and Menno van Dijk for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They explain how and why, in a disruptive age, established business models are under…
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Creative Strategy Generation: A book review by Bob Morris
Creative Strategy Generation: Using Passion and Creativity to Compose Business Strategies That Inspire Action and Growth Bob Caporale McGraw-Hill (2015) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter Throughout the last several decades, I have been…
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