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I finished my MBA 40 years ago. Courtesy of the current pandemic, I won’t be having the reunion I was looking forward to. But, I have been thinking back to lessons from those days. One of the hottest courses my second year was “Industry and Competitive Analysis.” Professor Mike Porter was putting the final touches […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersWhen I teach organizational design, I start with the observation that organizations survive because they’ve struck a balance with their environment. That environment is now an ecosystem teeming with other organizations seeking their own balance. One consequence is that you cannot separate organizational design from strategy. A second is that both must operate from a […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersMorry Fiddler is a friend and one of my personal trusted advisors. During one of our recent breakfasts, he recommended the following TED talk by Simon Sinek on how leaders inspire action. Since then, I’ve found myself weaving Sinek’s thinking into my own work and recommending it to others. I also made a point […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersThe earliest blog posts were essentially pointers to ‘good stuff’ out there. Here’s such a pointer from last fall from my former partners and still good friends Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui. They’ve found two very worthwhile reads that I otherwise would have missed. Following up on yesterday’s post about John Cassidy’s New Yorker article, […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersAn interesting thought to start the day. The Mantra of Entrenched Industries By Tim O’Reilly CJ Rayhill, our CIO, and the organizer of O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing conference, passed on a fabulous quote from Robertson Davies that aptly captures the hopes of entrenched industries: “The world is full of people whose notion of […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersI’d have to agree with Virginia Postrel here. The article is a very succinct and thought-provoking summary of Amazon’s plans to make elements of its technology and distribution infrastructure more generally available. Amazon’s plans strike me very much as an example of the real time lags we need to account for when trying to understand […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersThe book length version of The Long Tail has now been published. Based on Chris Anderson’s seminal Wired article, the book expands and elaborates on the article’s thesis that one consequence of network economics is to reset the balance in markets between hits and the rest of the distribution. Anderson also began a blog on […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersI got this book as a Christmas present from my brother-in-law. I probably wouldn’t have picked it up otherwise and that would have been unfortunate because this turned out to be among the best books I read last year. Chouinard was the founder of Patagonia and this book is a very readable and thought-provoking combination […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersAll of the Copyfight coverageof the Grokster case is worth following. This one reminds me thediffering mindsets of executives and policy makers. I was lucky enoughto learn strategy from Mike Porter as he was writing Competitive Strategy. His course was the hottest course at the Harvard Business School. Several years later, I went back to […]
Read More Essay Scam BustersAn interesting interview with Bezos. To me the most interesting thing he said was: I’m not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance isshifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of yourenergy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making itgreat, over the next 20 years I […]
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