Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Second, hypercompetitiveness in the workplace leaves us empty and unfulfilled, hurts our ability to lead effectively, and makes us no fun to be around. When we will do anything, compromise anything to come out on top without regard for the collateral damage, we are in trouble.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

Executives that employ corporate strategy can propel knowledge sharing in the company to generate more innovative ideas and solutions for new and demanding issues that come up constantly in our hypercompetitive economic environment.

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Knowledge Management Strategy Hypercompetition Management 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Having spent 25 years in this field, I’ve come across some hypercompetitive people who wouldn’t lift a finger to help a colleague and others who clashed regularly with coworkers, getting into arguments that sucked up time and energy. And my hypercompetitive colleagues were surely behaving the same way. Amit Maimon.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In the hypercompetitive travel space, Kayak has gone head to head with well-established brands like Expedia and Priceline quite successfully. In a related article at Scientific American , Tim Folger says that future generations will make us seem like dimwits in comparison. Commenters at both sites are skeptical. NOT JUST FOR BOATING ANYMORE.

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Hypercompetition Comparison Travel Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. The United States is at a dangerous juncture: Manufacturing jobs are on the rise, but the growth is still fragile. back to where it was a couple of years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In a world defined by hypercompetition and intense pressure, where business breakthroughs and career advancement demand a willingness to take risks and defy convention, the notion that any person can achieve meaningful success without experiencing setbacks and disappointments seems hopelessly naïve.

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Hypercompetition Transportation Career Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

So although you might expect that in a hypercompetitive environment, ambitious companies would constantly wrest market share from the leading firms, the reality is quite the opposite. The proportion rose slowly and relatively steadily, reaching 5% by the mid-1990s. It then leapt suddenly to 14% by the 2005–2007 period.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Since its launch in September 2011, DOST has garnered more than a third of India's hypercompetitive light commercial vehicles market. The result is DOST, an entry-level pick-up truck with a starting price of Rs 3.7 lakhs ($6,600).

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2015

For decades now, both consultants and academics have been arguing that the world has become so fast paced, so hypercompetitive, so complex, so ambiguous, and so uncertain, that the death knell has sounded for strategy’s central concept of sustainable competitive advantage.

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Competitive Advantage Strategy Hypercompetition Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Jugaad is a "bottom up" innovation approach that provides organizations in both emerging and developed economies the key capabilities they need to succeed in a hypercompetitive and fast-moving world: frugality, inclusivity, collaboration, and adaptability.

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Innovation Incubator Banking Hypercompetition 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

In today’s hypercompetitive world, the organization absolutely needs you to bring your whole self to work. By proving that diversity can pay big dividends, you can also demonstrate why it’s okay to “just be yourself.”.

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EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

The unforgiving truth is that failure — the ability to fail gracefully, relentlessly, consistently — has never mattered more.

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Hypercompetition Ries Definition Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. ” This credibility paradox is indeed a core dilemma many young people face as they enter the workforce.

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How To Hypercompetition Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Whether it''s a hypercompetitive culture encouraging ambitious employees to burn the midnight oil, or the anxiety of working for a bad boss causing insomnia, or a level of pressure that leaves decision-makers lying awake at night, companies contribute to people''s sleep deficits. Sense of Involvement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Make faster decisions for faster rewards: It’s important for businesses to sense, analyze, interpret and act fast on the data insights as competitive advantages will likely be more fleeting than long lasting in the hypercompetitive world.

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Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Yet, mere recovery probably isn't enough to do much about growing financial insecurity, not just because gross output isn't concerned with how the pie is divided, but, more deeply, because fragility is a consequence of hypercompetitive, globalized, winner-take-all labor markets: in other words, it's a feature, not a bug.

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GDP Hypercompetition Offshoring Long-term 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Make faster decisions for faster rewards: It’s important for businesses to sense, analyze, interpret and act fast on the data insights as competitive advantages will likely be more fleeting than long lasting in the hypercompetitive world.

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Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In such multiplayer games, players must collaborate to survive in a fast-changing environment with fierce competitors and incomplete or ambiguous information from which to base important decisions — that is, an environment not unlike many hypercompetitive global markets.

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Team Succession Hypercompetition Teamwork 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

It's not just that in a hypercompetitive world, yesterday's competitive edges are as dull as a plastic spork. Industrial-age advantage was about understating costs or overstating benefits slightly harder and faster than the next guy. But in a tiny, fragile, crowded world, yesterday's paths to advantage might just be sources of dis advantage.

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Incentives GDP Hypercompetition Self-aware 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 29, 2011

Here is an excerpt from another thoughtful and thought-provoking article written by Umair Haque for the Harvard Business Review blog. It is worth noting that Marcus Buckingham recently ranked Umair #1 among his favorite business bloggers. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Keeping a firms asset base up to date and flexible is an important way to ensure that “legacy” doesn’t turn into a liability in today’s hypercompetitive environment. Managers need to strike the right balance between exploration and exploitation.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

We argue that even the most stable and conservative industries may be threatened by disruption — and the most dynamic and hypercompetitive industries also entail incremental growth opportunities that can be quantified and realistically assessed.

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Project Management Diversity Document 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 24, 2011

DeLong is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior area at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard Faculty, DeLong was Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Group, Inc.,

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Organizational Behavior Human Capital Strategy Management 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 11, 2011

Cirque du Soleil: The Spark – Igniting the Creative Fire that Lives within Us All Created by Lyn Heward and written by John U. Bacon Doubleday (2006) “From a tiny spark a great fire was kindled and its flames warmed the world.” Cirque du Soleil is one of the 32 organizations that William C. Taylor [.].

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Taylorism Taylor Review Books 75

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit. At Priceline, Glenn Fogel joined in 2000 and became head of strategy.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

A strong superconsumer culture, where employees are willing to give a bit more because they know what their customers are feeling, can be the difference maker in a hypercompetitive world. Is there any one of us who doesn’t wish that our workplace had more energy, empathy, and creativity?

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8