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Michael E. Porter • Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
The late Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen agreed: In his classic HBR article “How Will You Measure Your Life?” he wrote, “I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I’ve touched.”
Rainer Strack, Susanne Dyrchs, Allison Bailey • Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want
The “professional employee,” Peter Drucker wrote, “needs rigorous performance standards and high goals. . . . But how he does his work should always be his responsibility and his decision.”
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
An organization that focuses inwardly may execute superbly. But if it has not attuned to the larger world in which it operates, that execution may end up in the service of a failed strategy.
Daniel Goleman • Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Can we become better than our competition at accumulating, disseminating, and building on our firmwide expertise and experience, so that each professional becomes more valuable in the marketplace by being empowered with a greater breadth and depth of experience?
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.