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- 01 Jun 1999
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the current system functioning, while leadership should inspire change. "It is possible to have too much or too little of either," Kotter writes. "Strong leadership with no management risks chaos," while "strong management with no leadership tends to View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Takeaways from the Class of 2015
There’s nothing as vulnerable as entrenched success. You have two eyes, two ears, and one mouth. 4:1 – remember that ratio. Pioneers get the arrows in the back. Settlers get the gold. Where you are going is more important than how fast...
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- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
(giving competitors a lead in a market) and the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for a period as medical residents turn over in teaching hospitals. Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device IndustryDoes large-scale technological change characteristic of an industrywide digital transformation View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
can use judo strategy to threaten an entrenched giant such as Microsoft, Microsoft's eventual success in the Internet "browser wars" shows that large, established companies can use these precepts effectively as well. According to the...
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by Daniel Penrice
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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous), far more value is created by companies like Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet that develop entirely novel business models than by entrenched incumbents, such as P&G or Ford, which struggle to eke out market share...
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog
– Encountering Entrenched Power in Organizations & Society: Why does the status quo persist, and why is it so difficult to change? MODULE 5 – Leading Change in Organizations and Society: What leadership roles must I assume if I want to...
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- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the entrenchment benefits vary according to initial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
policy, scale, and entrenched competition have erected formidable barriers to entry. The major global giants like Amazon and eBay have either exited the market or not even tried to enter it. Thus, think of Alibaba as a pure China play...
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- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
including financial services, steel production, automobile manufacturing, and retailing. "What we find," Christensen explains, "is upstart companies with extremely low overhead introducing new ways to meet the market's ill-served, low-end needs. When...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
insurance companies, such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna, are investing heavily in consumer-driven health care. That investment will create a competent infrastructure. Once the approach is entrenched in employers’ markets, it will move...
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- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
"Right now we're letting the ends of the ideological spectrum and the entrenched power of legacy interests stalemate a path to the future," Lassiter says. "That's a thing worth fighting." “Right now we're letting the ends of the...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world’s democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the ballot box, but an View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By...
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- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
are again underway, this time by returned emigrants hoping to entrench themselves by weakening the ‘permanent government’. Pre-war rhetoric has not translated into free elections. Conservative, tribal and religious candidates will win...
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change - Course Catalog
course not only looks at social entrepreneurship through the lens of traditional entrepreneurship, but also asks how people motivated by disrupting entrenched and often inequitable systems differ from traditional entrepreneurs. We will...
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Persistence, Progress & Pride: How Leaders Can Support LGBTQ+ Organizational Culture - Blog: RaGE Report
day of Black emancipation and the legislative abolition of chattel slavery. Though this marks a significant date in the Black American community, the systemic legacy of slavery remains deeply entrenched in our society today. Black...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
seven-year collaboration with University of North Carolina economics professor Steven Rosefielde. Their impressively researched volume challenges global leaders in government and business alike to push beyond culturally entrenched...
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
worldviews and ways of operating are directly informed by the circumstances of our lives. Many employers have facilitated implicit bias tests that help team members understand the deeply entrenched nature of our interpersonal...
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