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On Character
The Positioning Process: The Claim
The Case for Green
Picking A Team
Fire! Ready! Aim!
The Five Most Important Questions
You Want Change. You Also Want Results
Results From Planning
Animal Spirits
Why Aggregate Demand Targets Aren't Enough This Time
On Human Psychology, and Business Strategy
Top OC Green Companies
Designing Software When You're Late to Market
Bolles on Higher Mission
Kennedy: Take the Serious Road
This is Your Knee Calling
I Want Telescopic Eyesight
Inside-the-Box and Outside-the-Box Thinking
It Took Atari Graphics to Solve Brain Physiology
A Dollar Too Far
Kennedy on Kennedy
Telling the Green Story - and Making People Listen
How We Got In This Mess
Stories About Hospitals
Story-bound Ethics
Expertise - or Talent?
Innovation 1930-1950: Heart Lung Machine
Kids With Diabetes
VCs Have Money to Invest in the Right Deal
Value Chain Mash-ups
Operational Objectives Central to Strategy
Chinese Risk Takers
Frenzies: the Bad and the Not-So-Bad
The Corvair Was A Platform Strategy
Fostering Growth
Investing in Disruption
The First Time They Fixed Healthcare
Bloomberg's Fifteen-Year-Old Over-Night Success
Got Any Canaries?
Every Kid Gets a Computer
Saving Too Much
OpEd Pragmatism
31 January 2007 The Day the Market Broke
Conversing With Your Customers
Connections, Not Sequences
LA Region Creative Economy
The Greening of Orange County
Satisfaction
Technology Platform: Market Disruption
Watching Your Best People Leave Town
Web 2.0 Community Building
Newest Management Buzzword: Jugadu
Competing for Talent
Assign Your Best Salespeople Early in the Cycle
Flip's Pareto: 80% of the Functionality; 20% of the Cost
A Recipe for Personal Success
High Risk Collaboration
Follow-on Success
Pharma Strategy as Model for All
Design. Profit.
Story-telling Worksheet
Kawasaki's Revolution
Reengineering Useful in Down Times?
Garry Wills on Napoleon
A Leader Has to Have Followers - and What Else?
Beware the Omniscient CEO
The Harley Davidson Story
Jobs at Pixar
Democratic Strategy
Helping a Team Create
Hack and Hacker Defined and the Ethics Thereof
Optimism in the Face of Crisis
Unraveling of a Strategy?
Cheap Genome
Record Pricing at the iTunes
Business Plan Outline
Why Read About the Macintosh?
The Chronology of a Quote: "Information wants to be free."
Grading Green - and Health Care - Initiatives
McDonald's Three-Legged Stool Doesn't Include Customers
Computers Disrupt the Classroom
Disruptive Strategy for Health Care
Disruption in the Automotive Industry
Role of the Consultant
Modern Artificial Intelligence: Catching Human Brain-power?
Flash Trading Too Much of a Good Thing?
Economic Indicators Reports
Disruptive Strategy: Christensen's Little Industry
The Healthcare Cluster
Bibliography on the Consulting
The Cruise Line Industry
Are We There Yet?
I Want a Snap-Together Auto
Jim Collins' Latest Book
Singapore Invests: Count the Ways
Richard Branson's Mantra
Overcoming Extremist Employees
The Depression - of 1837
Wagoner Was the Wrong CEO
If Al Gore Created the Internet, Who Created Globalism?
Buffett Predicts the Tech Bust in 1999
Green Problem - or Is It Solution? - Defined
ROI From Knowledge: The Green Build-up Re-Considered
Increasing Your Pace With Coaching
Porter's Five Forces Obsolete
Singularity and Modern Man
The Latest on Success and Significance
Convergence in the Flat World
Goals at Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
The Rockets Use Atypical Criteria to Evalute Players
It's All Goran's Fault
In Goldman, Sachs We Trust
Innovation Drives Revenue Growth at P&G
Google After the IPO
Current State of the Economy - in a Book
Trapped by Your Employees
100:1 Leverage Isn't Necessarily a Good Thing
GM's Pension Fund Started the Take-Over Debacle of the 1980s
Netbook Disrupts Notebook Market; Intel and Microsoft Hurt
Jefferson's Navy - No Arguing With Success
Obama: Role of Law, and a Good Consultant
Applying Strategy: When Patents Don't Do Anyone Any Good, Try Creative Capitalism
Applying Strategy: Goldman Sachs Thinks Strategically
Launch a Business During a Recession?
Applying Bogle's "Enough"
Applying Gladwell's "Outliers"
The Virtuous Leader
Proposed: US Department of Innovation
Olympus' Disruptive Technology That Really Isn't Disruptive
Tom Peter's Best Books on Managing
Ogilvy on Advertising
Bobby Kennedy's Hope
Bill Walsh on Building a Winning Team
Taking the Walkman to Market - or the One Man Focus Group
Brooklyn Dodger's People
Enron Revisited: The Epilogue
Savannah and Prince Rupert Improve Their Ports - At the Wrong Time
Disruptions in the LCD Market
IDEO Inc. Listens, Observes, Then Proposes
The Introverted Jack Welch
Everybody Wears Red Shoes At Microsoft's New Division
Obama's First Faux Pax
Read the Prequel to THE Book on the Bust
I Missed Something During the Crisis
Call for (Gold) Standards?
Michael Porter on a National Economic Strategy
Lincoln's Principled Pragmatism
Open Source Software? Yes. Hardware and Services as Well
Business Plan Pitch: Focus on the Non-verbal
Out of a Bust, a Prescription
When Values Go Wildly Awry
Retailer Strategy: More Than Location
Strategic Realignment
The First Fall of Lehman Brothers
Let Folks Contribute
The Fat Tail Strikes Again
Oil Boomers - Scoundrels or Saints?
Perfect Storm: Lower Volume, Competiton From Abroad - and Now Air Quality
Making a Baja Port Pencil Out
Speedo's Disruptive Olympics
Disruptive Behavior in the Banking Mess
Disruptive Technology: Smaller Companies Have the Edge
If They Build the Port, Will Anybody Come?
Competition versus Collaboration in the Cancer Wars
Shipping's Disruptive Technology
Trust Your Values. Act on Your Values
History Repeats Itself - Forget at Your Peril
When Mortgages Were First Bundled - In 1979
Bonfire Euphoria - and Failure
Conglomerate's Day in the Sun
Old Way Strategy at Disney
Selling Something? Proof That Three Options Work Best
IBM's Transformation - In 1955 - Is Still Relevant
The Last Lecture
Articulating Strategy Is As Important As Creating It
Bipolar Planning: Is the Goal Happiness - or Adventure?
Political Websites Edge Towards Business
Big Consulting Yields Big Data Bases
People Strategy: Lincoln and His Competition
Harvard vs. Berea - and Values
Joysticks, Chapter II
Bear Strategy
The Sustainable MBA
1800 Was the Tipping Point
Spotting Ideas - vs. Creating Them
Herbie the Boy Scout - And Manufacturing
Berlin - or Lübeck?
Incremental Innovation vs. Brand New
Toyota: Outside/Inside Focus
State Your Business ... State Your Strategy
Truman and the Unions: When Push Comes to Shove
Buchanan on Washington
First Step to Innovation: Build New Habits
Quality, Delivery, or Price?
Family Business Issues
Moon Economics
Cool Presentation of Intricate Data
Who's On First
Machiavellian Maneuvers
Case Study: Rationale for a Strategic Alliance
The Heart of Leadership
Goodall's Strategy for Growth
Will Two Technologies Survive in the Same Space?
Community Heroes
California Start-up Makes Good
Ranking Competitive Cities
Warren Buffet's Annual Letter
Newt Gingrich on Real Change
Joysticks Aren't Just For Video Games
The Business of Books: Pink's New Book
On Jimmy Carter's Poetry
Making Enrichment a Sure Thing
The Gerald Ford Scoop
Sony Lost Betamax Battle, Won Blu-ray
An Empty Lake Meade
Samuel Smiles and Sakichi Toyoda
Strategy: Old Way or New Way? Or Blend?
Peter Jennings' Legacy
Nike's Very Own James Dean - and the Source of Its Soul
Sustainable Innovation II
Toyota: Key Words
On Case Studies and MBA Programs
Coffee at a Buck a Cup
Non-Disruptive Technologies
Apple Chapter IV
To Lipitor - Or Not To Lipitor
Self-publishing Sources
Inside Scoop on VCs
Apple Chapter III
Gary Hamel Strikes Again
Gandhian Engineering
Sell Strategy
New Elixirs
Writing Boomer History
Alexander's Cravings
Greenspan Speaks
An Education From Wandering
Four Old Friends
Ignore the Experts
New Books This Month
Winning at Innovation
Strategy By the Numbers
Tough CEOs Finish First
Is It Objectives First, Or Opportunitites?
Scholarships for Football - or Academics?
She Founded Iraq
Churchill Ascends to Prime Minister
Got Scoreboard, Will Grow
Space Strategy
Sports Metaphors - and Growth Strategy
Junk Bond Rates Have Room to Grow
Apple's Price War, Chapter II
Airbus Delivers A380; Boeing Delays 787
Competitiveness
Good EPA, Bad EPA
My Aunt Mary
The New BusinessWeek
Chess as Management Training
American Abroad in China
First, Break All the Rules. Which Rules?
Ayn Rand's Friends
Think You're a Good Manager?
Value Innovation Strategy
Formulating Technology Strategy
Circle of Doom
Promote From Within? Continually Train Your Marketing Team
Putting a Value on Synergies
Thought Leaders
Assessment Tools
Patent Rulings Change for the Better
I'll Bet Apple Wins Price War
End-Game Strategy Moves Upstream
When Not to Trust Your Gut Reaction - and When to Trust It
Maximizing Valuation
Seven Steps Toward Your Own Strategic Plan
Impact Business Value
It's Not Head-to-Head Competition Anymore
The Art of Management Failure
Silver Lining in Subprime Meltdown?
Two Types of M&A Deal Breakers
Culture Change a la 1981
Summer Reading
Apple Design's One Word: Jobs
Forward Looking Investors
China and the World
High Level Learning - and Leading
University at Work
Industrialization in the LA Basin
Begin With the End In Mind
Battle of the Synergies
Secretariat Was a Race Horse
Hoover Dam's Lake Mead Down 108'
Tom Peters' Best Book Suggestions
Build a Good Name - Increase Stock Price
Building Leadership
Rarely Told Secrets: The Pac-Man Story and Japan's "New Idea" Strategy
Crazy Horse Learned Strategy
Enron Revisited
Pushing the Buttons
No Cheering Allowed
The Case for Building a Bench
Lessons from the Boeing/Airbus Battle
Including Global Warming in Strategic Planning
Strategy Drives Structure
Discipline - and Market Leaders
Medical Device Incubator
When to War-game
Logic of Green
Self-deprecation as a Strategy
Growth Breakthroughs
Housing Woes
US Navy and Avalon Wildfire
Current Situation? Desired Situation?
Strategic Leaders in Regional Economic Development
Samueli on Building Broadcom
Strategy for the Newly Merged
Instant Conferences Make Sense
Post Neutron Jack
Learning to Lead: Giuliani at His Best
Hidden in Plain Sight
Coming from the Blind Side
Criteria for a (White House) Chief of Staff
Getting to the Last Third
Job Growth in Orange County
Integrating Strategy Company Wide Using Scorecards
Selling the Value of HR
How Boards Assess Management's Strategy
Infrastructure Bonds Point Out Weakness and Opportunity in Workforce Preparedness
Intellectual Property - As a Bond
Role of the White Paper
Catastrophe Planning 2.0
Milken on Connecting With People
Selected Readings On Enterprise Communities and Empowerment Zones
Team Players Win
Openness in the Information Economy
One Good Turn ...
Local Company Makes Good
The Man Behind the Throne
Binary Decisions (As In March Madness) Work
Defining Paradoxical Strategic Terms
Paradox of Strategy
On Seeing - Indian Style
Reverse Merger - Chinese Style
Conglomerate's Yields Exceed Berkshire and GE
Razors and Blades in the Printer Business
Inefficient Markets: Pharma Start-ups
Altruism - and Capitalism
Focus on the Ones Who Can Change
Fostering Loyalty
Lance Armstrong Applied
Benefitting From Change
Micro-enterprise Loans - in Orange County?
Top Speed Strategy In Those Crucial First Days
Planning to Succeed at Acquisition
Mergers and Acquisitions: Of Two Points of View, One REALLY Matters
One Big Supplier
One Big Customer
New Profits - Old Strategy
On Game Film
Economic Development Friendly to Growth?
Pfizer Lays Off 7,800
Wooden on Success: Industriousness and Enthusiasm
On Success - and Significance
Adapting to the Competition
Oil, Tortillas and Green
Hiring Do's and Don'ts
How Thinking Can Change the Brain
Strategic Alliances: Checklist for Establishing
Top Strategic Initiatives
Community Collaboration
Colonial Roots
Succession - and Frank Gehry
Mellow Wins Out
Values at Work - Skills and Character
Values at Work - Emotional Intelligence
Bradley's Values at Work
Welch's Values at Work
Values at Work: Character - and Emotional Intelligence
Less Complexity More Profits
Stoking Valuation With Increased Productivity
On Dis-banding the United Kingdom
Updates on Medical Devices in Orange County
Beginning the Transformation - People
New - and Useful - Buzzword: Transform
New Trend on Wall Street
New Strategy - Sustainability
Old Way - New Way
Breaking the Small Barrier
How Family Businesses Fail
Plan First - Or People?
How to Kill Meetings
On Medical Device Stagnation in OC
On Cause-Related Marketing
On Productivity
Selling Your Company: Earnouts
Planning the Business Sale
On Rapid Growth
On Innovation
Tech Coast Angel's Eleven Must Have Slides
Where Finance and Strategy Work Together
Barry Bonds' Batting Strategy
Brainstorm Correctly
On Culture Change: Old Theory - New Theory
Don't Bother If You're Not Going to Implement
Strategies and Tactics Based Upon Personal Strengths - And Opportunities
Vision and Objectives Work Together
Company Mission Statement
Your Personal Values
You Need a Plan
The Seven Steps Toward Your Own Strategic Plan
Revisit Your Plan
On Strategy: Welch on IT, HR - and the CFO
On Marketing: "Authentic Marketing"
On Strategy: Just Make a Decision - Any Decision
On Salespeople: Invest in Your Bottom 20%
On Strategy: Welch on Culture Change
'Differentiation Curve'
Applying End Game Strategy: Speed Up the Pace
Too Much Practice Makes Imperfect
On M&A: Auctions as Strategy
On Strategy: Risk - and Pricing
Why "End Game" Strategy?
Increase the Pace
On Strategy: Good to Great Self Quiz
On Strategy: Properly Focused
On Strategy: On-shore or Off-shore - It Doesn't Matter
On Valuation: Rules of Thumb
On Strategy: Properly Complementary
On Strategy: Debt - And Low Cost Leadership
On Strategy: Analyzing Opportunities
On Economics: China as Competition
Disciplined Team, Disciplined Thoughts
On Strategy: When In Depth Analysis Leads to Better Strategy
On Strategy: Make Intangibles Tangible
On Strategy: A Contrarian Look at Business Plans
On Strategy: How Techtronic Built Share Amid Fierce Competition
On Strategy: Responding to Slow Growth in Technology Companies
On Strategy: Mission Effects Value
On Strategy: Fire the CEO?
On Strategy: Succession Planning
On Yourself: Leadership: Success - and Significance
On Marketing: Invest in Your Stars?
On Sales: Play Hardball
On Strategy: Focus on Weaknesses
On Strategy: Focus on Raising Money Before You Need It
On Marketing: Permission Marketing
On Strategy: Takes on Competition - and Win
On Marketing: Read That Pet, Not Dog
On Strategy: My Friend Bill
On Economics: Mega Community Manifesto
On Outsourcing – Or Crowdsourcing?
On Strategy: Two Sides of Innovation
On Strategy: Selling Disruptive Innovations to Senior Management
People Centered Research: Ethnography
On Risk: The Intelligent Investor
On Strategy: AeA Announces Capital Conference
Why Bother With a Sustainable Strategy?
Drug Approval by Managed Care Agencies Crucial
Combining Puppets AND People for Better Results
Valuing Your Business
Blog Strategy
Faster Strategic Decisions
Taking Action on Opportunities

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