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4 Aug 2007

The Economics of Business Strategy: Vendors and Suppliers

Business Strategy

I’m working on a short paper explaining the economic approach to evaluating business strategy. But an item in the Wall Street Journal this week highlights one of the key points: a company needs to determine …

26 Jul 2007

Time: How You Spend It Is Critical

Business Strategy

My friend Larry Dennis, the ace leadership consultant, has a great little article about how great leaders spend their time. (I think that’s not a permalink, so read it this week.)

25 Jul 2007

Age Discrimination in Hiring and Consulting

Business Strategy

Plenty of my gray-haired peers fear age discrimination when looking for a job. My consultant buddies have concern every time they pitch their services to a younger corporate executive. Here’s how to deal with the …

23 Jul 2007

Employee Performance: Measuring to Reward Success

Business Strategy Labor Markets Trial and Error Economy

Labor markets are tight. It’s important to retain your best employees. But who are the best employees? That question is tough. A recent article in Business 2.0 magazine helps employers get a handle on employee …

22 Jul 2007

Internal Markets in Corporations

Business Strategy

Alastair Walling over at Market Based Management Institute has a good post on the need for internal markets in corporations. His key point: things that are not priced get overused. So if a corporate department …

22 Jul 2007

Advice for Entrepreneurs (which Corporate Executives Can Use)

Business Strategy Trial and Error Economy

Guy Kawasaki moderated a panel at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley: No Plan, No Capital, No Model … No Problem. The program is well worth watching not only for start-up entrepreneurs, but also for …

20 Jul 2007

Auto Dealers Best Practices–Lessons for All Businesses

Business Strategy Trial and Error Economy

All business leaders should scan the horizon outside of their own industries for ideas to improve their business. A recent McKinsey & Co. study, How to Build Top-Performing Auto Dealerships, offers insights that everyone can …

21 Jun 2007

Corporate Strategy, Profits, and Self-Interest

Business Strategy

John Allison, the CEO of BB&T Bank, gave a tremendously good interview on Russ Roberts’s EconTalk podcast. Allison has helped build BB&T into a profitable and growing bank by emphasizing ten key values that should …

19 Jun 2007

Corporate Philanthropy: What’s Wrong with This Idea?

Business Strategy

Robert Barro challenges Bill Gates’s view of how to help the world in a column in the Wall Street Journal. In case you don’t recognize the name, Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft, a …

17 Jun 2007

Hiring Good Employees: Not as Easy as You Think

Books Business Strategy Labor Markets

The most dangerous part of the hiring process is what you think you know, but which might not be true. I just finished reading Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, a best seller from a few years back …

16 Jun 2007

Disadvantages of Manufacturing in China

Business Strategy

I use the China Law Blog as a source of wisdom on China. Dan Harris’s recent post about some disadvantages of manufacturing in China struck me as basic and obvious–until I read his last comment: …

11 Jun 2007

Capacity Utilization in Product Development: Be Careful

Business Strategy

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a great article (may need subscription) about product innovation at Avery Dennison Corporation. Seems that their throughput was slower than desired, because they were trying to do too much. Upon …