Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Until…there’s too much of it, and its dark side surfaces: lack of innovation, narrow-minded thinking, ingrained and unquestioned bias, outdated practices, and failure to grow as a person. Professor Donald Sull calls it active inertia, an organization’s tendency to follow established patterns of behavior. Boredom, too.

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leaderCommunicator

JUNE 28, 2019

To survive and thrive in today’s market, a healthy corporate culture is more important than ever. To survive and thrive in today’s market, a healthy corporate culture is more important than ever. Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. Puzzling anecdotes abound: Microsoft has missed out on a series of new products in the past decade, yet as Don Sull points out , it continues to be highly profitable. It’s become part of the conventional wisdom.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”

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