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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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The Problem of Development
I have had several engagements in which senior officers of a nation-state were seeking advice on how to grow and deepen its economy.
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Distributed Knowledge
In economic theory, companies compete and copy one another's methods, producing rough equality of efficiencies.
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The Logic of The Chain
Why piecemeal change can make things worse . . .
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The Dark Side of Business
In 1956 Chairman Mao declared a new openness in the Chinese Communist Party.
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Blockbuster
What really happened . . .
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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…
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The Sound of a Domino Falling
When, in January of 1974, Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho signed the Paris “Peace” Accords, I was a young professor on leave from Harvard Business…
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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.
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