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quickpoint: Strategy and Leadership

Leading Blog

Professor David Teece of University of California Berkeley Hass School of Business shares this in the foreword of Winning the Long Game : A firm’s dynamic capabilities rest on two pillars: ( 1 ) the vision and leadership skills of managers, and ( 2 ) the cohesion and flexibility of the organization as a whole.

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Richard P. Rumelt: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Rumelt received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1972, having previously earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He worked as a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1976.

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Sydney Finkelstein on why smart executives fail: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Sydney Finkelstein earned a Bcomm degree from Concordia University, an Msc. degree from the London School of Economics, and a PhD. from Columbia University. He is Steven Ross Professor of Management at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. His published works include Dynamic Capabilities: Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations (with C.