The Strategist
The Strategist
Thomas A. Stewart
Biography
Thomas A. Stewart
Formerly the editor and managing director of Harvard Business Review, Stewart is the author of Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations and The Wealth of Knowledge; Intellectual Capital and the 21st Century Organization.
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The End of Customer Power
For half a century, customer power has grown at the expense of producers and sellers. That's starting to change. Buyer beware.
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Radical Change Is for Losers
If business feels like perpetual whitewater, you're spending too much time changing and not enough time leading the business you have.
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How U.S. Manufacturing Can Save Itself
U.S. manufacturing is much more competitive than you think--but we could still lose half of what we've got. Here's how to create and defend a right to win.
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Wanted: Adoptive Parents for Orphaned Ideas
The ideas that may define the future of your company are often the very ones that fall through the cracks of the budget process. Adopt them--and the future could be yours.
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How Long Should You Wait for a Strategy to Work?
Cisco, Dell, GE, Microsoft, Wal-Mart; When it comes to investing--or strategy--how do you know whether you are being patient or passive?
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Are You Focused on the Right Thing?
Get this: The more focused a company is, the more likely the CEO will lose his job. Or so it seems.
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Why You Should Want to Be a Yes Man
The best way to exercise power is to create conditions in which you can say "yes" a lot more often than you ever say "no."
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Are You Motivated--Or Are You Driven?
When I look at colleagues or clients or friends, I see more driven people than motivated ones. Why is that?
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Who Owns Your Brand?
Brands, branding, and brand strategy become a lot less complicated if you remember five big, simple things.
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Why Can't CEO Pay Ever Be Brought into Line?
CEO pay ought to be motivating, reasonable, and comprehensible. It's none of those things now--and attempts at reform just make it worse.
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Don't Be Green--Be Great
Given the fact that the (immediate) business case is weak, what does a smart low-carbon strategy look like?
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The 4 Types of Teams All Leaders Need to Understand
There are four different kinds of teams, each organized in different ways. Understand the taxonomy of teamwork and you'll be a better leader and a better player.
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The New York Times Is Paid Content's Big Showdown
A lot is at stake in the New York Times's decision to put up a paywall. If the Times can't make paid content work, no one can.
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Apple's Secret Sauce: The Real Ingredients
Apple is extraordinary explicit about its strategy. Maybe that clarity is why the company actually delivers what it says it will.
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Open Management: What's It Worth?
Will this be the twilight of hierarchy and the dawn of a new era of collaboration? I'll get back to you after I check with my boss.
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A Brave New World for Managing People?
To hear some people talk, the next generation is a whole new species. Indeed, Y's guys will change talent strategy--but not how most people think.
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Who Gives a Hoot about Gen Y?
Most of the stuff about the next generation being new 'n' different is garbage. But a few changes are seriously important.
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How Cloud Computing is Changing Corporate Strategy
Cloud computing isn't just going to transform IT. It just might redefine the very nature of strategic advantage.
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Corporate Revolution: Unlock Your Culture's Revolutionary Zeal
Creating big change at company requires understanding the capabilities of your organization. Sound simple? Hardly.
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Corporate Revolution: How Not to Alienate the People
Why do so many people who try to change companies treat their people as the enemy?
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