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The New Competitive Advantage (Spanish version)
Reeves, Martin; Deimler, MikeArticle HBS-R1107MStrategythe people who work for them. The authors, senior partners at the Boston Consulting Group, review these four types of organizational capabilities, showing what companies at the leading edge are doing to create them. They also discuss the particular implications of this fundamental strategic shift for large corporations, many of which have built their operations around scale and efficiency-sources of advantage predicated on an essentially stable ...Starting at €8.20
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From Purpose to Impact (Spanish version)
Craig, Nick; Snook, Scott A.Article HBS-R1405HStrategyOver the past five years, there's been an explosion of interest in purpose-driven leadership. Academics, business experts, and even doctors make the case that purpose is a key to exceptional leadership and the pathway to greater well-being. Despite this growing understanding, however, a big challenge remains. Few leaders have a strong sense of their own individual purpose, the authors' research and experience show, and even fewer can distill thei...Starting at €8.20
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Love and Fear and the Modern Boss (Spanish version)
Snook, Scott A.Article HBS-F0801ALeadership and People ManagementShould a leader be loved or feared? That age-old question still has no simple answer. It depends on who the leader is and whom she's leading. Successful executives adapt their styles when they need to; they also know their limits.Starting at €8.20
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From Purpose to Impact
Craig, Nick; Snook, Scott A.Article HBS-R1405H-EOver the past five years, there's been an explosion of interest in purpose-driven leadership. Academics, business experts, and even doctors make the case that purpose is a key to exceptional leadership and the pathway to greater well-being. Despite this growing understanding, however, a big challenge remains. Few leaders have a strong sense of their own individual purpose, the authors' research and experience show, and even fewer can distill thei...Starting at €8.20
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The Self-Tuning Enterprise
Reeves, Martin; Zeng, Ming; Venjara, AminArticle HBS-R1506E-EStrategyWouldn't it be great if there were an algorithm that could tell you when to develop a new business model or enter an emerging market? Unfortunately, one doesn't exist. However, it is possible to use the principles behind algorithms to continually retune your strategy and your organization. In online enterprises, algorithms constantly readjust the products and content shown to customers. They do this by operating three learning loops: experiment...Starting at €8.20
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Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage
Reeves, Martin; Deimler, MikeArticle HBS-R1107M-EStrategyTraditional approaches to strategy assume that the world is relatively stable and predictable. But globalization, new technologies, and greater transparency have combined to upend the business environment. In this period of risk and uncertainty, more and more managers are finding competitive advantage in organizational capabilities that foster rapid adaptation. Instead of being really good at doing some particular thing, companies must be really ...Starting at €8.20
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Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
Reeves, Martin; Love, Claire; Tillmanns, PhilippArticle HBS-R1209E-EStrategyMany executives rely on a process for devising strategy suited to stable, predictable environments even when they know conditions are highly volatile and mutable. Why? Because, the authors contend, they lack a systematic way to match their strategy-making style to the particular circumstances of their industry, business function, or geographic market. These three BCG consultants offer a framework to do just that. It identifies four "strategic sty...Starting at €8.20
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Taming Complexity
Reeves, Martin; Levin, Simon; Fink, Thomas; Levina, AniaArticle HBS-R2001J-EService and Operations ManagementIn growing your organization, make sure that it remains modular in structure and that all components and connections conform to a small number of simple operating principles. Embed a bias for change, avoid imposing too many controls on your people, and let the market judge which changes work. Finally, always optimize your organization globally and keep fixing, repairing, and pruning.Starting at €8.20
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Love and Fear and the Modern Boss
Snook, Scott A.Article HBS-F0801A-ELeadership and People ManagementShould a leader be loved or feared? That age-old question still has no simple answer. It depends on who the leader is and whom she's leading. Successful executives adapt their styles when they need to; they also know their limits.Starting at €8.20
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The Biology of Corporate Survival
Reeves, Martin; Levin, Simon; Ueda, DaichiArticle HBS-R1601B-EU.S. public companies are dying at faster and faster rates; in fact, they have a one in three chance of being delisted in the next five years. Why? They are failing to adapt to the growing complexity of their environments, the authors argue--misreading those environments, selecting the wrong approaches to strategy, or failing to support a viable approach with the right behaviors and capabilities. Drawing on their research at the intersection of b...Starting at €8.20