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The Five Key Capabilities of Effective Leadership
网页2018年11月14日 · Building credibility. In the figure above, building credibility appears at the centre, surrounded by arrows. This is because this key capability is both the condition and the result of the other four. It is about gaining respect from others by keeping commitments and operating with a strong sense of purpose.
What Corporate Strategists Need to Know About Synergies
网页2016年4月5日 · As noted in our book Corporate Strategy: Tools for Analysis and Decision-Making, leaders should be able to use this tool to identify which type (s) of synergy they’re seeking with each new deal and to discover new opportunities for synergy within existing partnerships or proposals, e.g. by ascertaining whether a business has in its value ...
What Makes Business Ecosystems Succeed? | INSEAD Knowledge
网页29 Mar 2021 1. Our framework guides you through the forces driving Airbnb and other ecosystem-based businesses. Business ecosystems are an interesting and exciting phenomenon of the 21 st century. Much like division of labour and the steam engine gave rise to factories during the Industrial Revolution in …
Blue Ocean Strategy: The primer | INSEAD Knowledge
网页2007年9月12日 · The book ‘Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant’ has had a huge impact worldwide. Written by two INSEAD professors, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, it sold more than a million copies within its first year of publication and has been translated into 39 languages, breaking Harvard Publishing records as the fastest selling book in print.
Embracing the Paradoxes of Leadership | INSEAD Knowledge
网页2019年9月20日 · Here are some of Lego’s managerial paradoxes: “To take the lead and to recede into the background.”. “To plan the working day carefully and be flexible.”. “To be self-confident and humble.”. These expressions (from the 1980s) are still valid today, if not more so. The issue is around longstanding and preconceived ideas of what a ...
Don’t Confuse Platforms with Ecosystems | INSEAD Knowledge
网页2020年12月22日 · Quadrant C: This business model is a platform without being an ecosystem. It enables transactions between two parties with the value being generated by the transactions themselves (regardless of the nature of the underlying exchange). eBay and Airbnb are examples of a platform, which connects buyers and sellers directly.
The innovation value chain - INSEAD Knowledge
网页2007年5月27日 · The innovation value chain. Innovation isn’t all about great ideas. INSEAD Professor of Entrepreneurship Morten Hansen and visiting professor Julian Birkinshaw argue that companies often fail because they don’t recognise that innovation is a chain that requires strength at every link to succeed. The chain starts with idea generation, but ...
How Netflix Finds Innovation on the Edge of Chaos
网页2020年9月30日 · And there is a much faster growth that comes with that,” Meyer says. On the edge of chaos. The book stresses that not every company is suited to operate “on the edge of chaos”, to use Hastings’s phrase. Creative-economy firms, whose mandate is to “innovate or die”, have the most to gain from abolishing controls.
Bluebeard Revisited: Knowledge Is Power
网页2021年3月31日 · While reading worrying stories of violence against women in the media, including news of adult princesses being unlawfully deprived of their liberty by their powerful father, I was reminded of the terrifying fairy tale of “Bluebeard”. Charles Perrault published the first and most famous version of this French folktale in 1697. Since then, it has never lost its fascination, appearing in ...