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Articles, notes, arguments, and ruminations about strategy issues of the day and previous days.
By Richard Rumelt · Launched 2 months ago
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The Dark Side of Business
In 1956 Chairman Mao declared a new openness in the Chinese Communist Party. He echoed the Soviet Party’s criticisms of Stalin and declared “Let a hundred flowers bloom.” It wasn’t long before criticism arrived. Wall-posters and speakers began to complain about the Party’s…
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Distributed Knowledge
In economic theory, companies compete and copy one another's methods, producing rough equality of efficiencies. However, firms in the same industry can differ significantly in their efficiencies and profitability in the real world. Much of strategy research is aimed at…
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Richard Helms Explains Skimming
In 1973 I was a young man living in Iran, on leave from my first faculty position at Harvard Business School, helping to start a new business school in Tehran—the Iran Center for Management Studies (ICMS). While there I spent an afternoon with Richard Helms. He had been one of…
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Is Management About People?
“Management,” says the speaker “is about people.” He pauses, slowly surveying the roomful of executives, and then continues. “It is about getting the…
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Strategy at an Inflection Point
In Only the Paranoid Survive, one of the best books on business strategy ever written, Intel CEO Andy Grove defined an inflection point as “a time in…
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