“Declining revenues” isn’t a problem, it’s feedback
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Dear Alex, the answer to your question about whether college is obsolete or not is, “Yes… it’ll just be a little time before the reality sinks in.”
Alex, there’s a guy by the name of Clayton Christensen out there who is a really sharp guy. Harvard prof sharp. And in the book The Innovator’s Solution, Professor [...]
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Big picture, conceptual, strategic thinking is NOT knowing Porter’s 5 Forces. It’s not having an MBA, and it’s not being invited to a strategic meeting… Strategic thinking is thinking on a conceptual plane… Strategic thinkers can see things that aren’t there… yet. They can envision a different world from the one that exists, based on extrapolation as opposed to pure imagination.
If I differentiate strategic thinking from conceptual thinking, it’s to distinguish those who can merely think the big thoughts from those who can also see how to implement them.
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Great leaders need spies to supply valuable information… and that has implications for organizational culture, which are explored here.
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Today’s installment goes beyond business and looks at some of the craziness in the world today.
Sun Tzu opens chapter 4, on “Dispositions,” by warning the reader that truly skilled warriers first make themselves invincible, and then await an enemy’s vulnerability.
This one sentence—which remember, is held by many people in many quarters to be part of the most sage collection of military wisdom ever documented—completely undermines the strategic underpinning of Amercia’s current War on Terror.
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Abstract: how to fight fights you can win, plus the big whammy from chapter 3: To know yourself and your enemy is to never fear 1,000 battles. To know yourself but not your enemy, is to win and lose in equal measure. To know neither yourself nor your enemy, is to be in peril in every battle.
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