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The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
A brilliant strategy may put you on the competitive map. But only solid execution keeps you there. Unfortunately, most companies struggle with implementation. That's because they overrely on structural changes, such as reorganization, to execute their...
The Next Revolution in Productivity
Despite decades of reengineering, large companies still have problems with their business operations. They duplicate processes. They perform hundreds of noncore tasks that should be outsourced. And they spend vast sums on proprietary process-management software that's...
Patent Sharks
Technology firms face a serious menace: patent sharks. These predators collect patents through acquisitions in bankruptcy proceedings, licensing agreements, or their own R&D efforts. They hide their intellectual property--to deliberately trap tech firms into inadvertent patent...
In Praise of the Incomplete Leader
Have you ever feigned confidence to superiors or reports? Hidden the fact you were confused by the latest business results or blindsided by a competitor's move? If so, you've bought into the myth of the complete...
Rediscovering Market Segmentation
Fifty-nine percent of recently surveyed companies executed a major market-segmentation initiative in the previous two years. Yet only 14% derived real value from the exercise. What's wrong with market segmentation? Segmentation typically focuses on consumer...
Managing Oneself
The Idea in Brief We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition, drive, and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession--regardless of where you started out. But...
Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?
The Idea in Brief How many of us struggle harder every day to uphold obligations to our bosses, families, and communities--even as the quality of our lives erodes? And how many of us feel too...
Curveball
The Idea in Brief You've executed a brilliant new strategy--but your competitors are catching on. How to get them off your scent? Stalk recommends throwing curveball strategies: clever moves that get competitors looking the other way...
Cocreating Business's New Social Compact
The Idea in Brief Executives and social activists working together? It's true: after decades of mutual distrust, corporations and nongovernmental organizations NGOs are collaborating to combat poverty around the world. Their weapon? Innovative local businesses such as...
The Perfect Message at the Perfect Moment
The Idea in Brief Most customers don't want to hear from your company most of the time. If you're bombarding them with frequent promotional messages, you're probably generating more resentment than revenue. But there are fleeting moments...
The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation
The Idea in Brief Breakthroughs in your company's management processes--such as creation of intellectual property, brand building, talent development--deliver potent competitive advantages. By perfecting the industrial research laboratory, for example, General Electric won more patents than...
The Wisdom of Deliberate Mistakes
The Idea in Brief If you're like most managers, you frown on mistakes--yours and others. Why? Your organization demands optimum performance. And it rewards you based on the height of your successes, not the depth of your...
Value Innovation
The Idea in Brief Struggling to stay ahead of your rivals? No need. Instead of trying to match or beat them on cost or quality, make the other players irrelevant--by staking out new market space...
The Triple-A Supply Chain
The Idea in Brief The holy grails of supply chain management are high speed and low cost--or are they? Though necessary, they aren't sufficient to give companies a sustainable competitive advantage over rivals. Consider these...
Deals Without Delusions
The Idea in Brief Half of all acquiring companies pay more for target firms than they're worth. Often it's because of executives' mental biases: Their interest in a deal keeps them from being objective about its value....
How Star Women Build Portable Skills
The Idea in Brief A star performer in one company will shine in another, right? Wrong. When stars switch firms, their performance actually dims, along with their new company's market value, author Boris Groysberg argues. Everyone loses....
The Founder's Dilemma
The Idea in Brief Most entrepreneurs want to make pots of money and run the show. But Wasserman reveals that it's tough to do both. If you don't figure out which matters most to you, you could...
Building a Learning Organization
The Idea in Brief As we all know, to stay ahead of competitors, companies must constantly enhance the way they do business. But more performance-improvement programs fail than succeed. That's because many managers don't realize that...
The Hidden Dragons
The Idea in Brief What multinational doesn't want a piece of the action in China--with 1.3 billion potential customers, 9.3% percent annual economic growth, and a per capita income that quadruples yearly? Carried away by...
Understanding People People
The Idea in Brief Looking for fresh ways to motivate your employees? Give them work that allows them to use their varied interpersonal talents. But first recognize that people skills are more nuanced than many...
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