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1 online resource (xxi, 174 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Brief Table of Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Can You Predict the Unexpected?; PART I From the Conventional to the Emerging New Paradigm; 1 Disrupters' Paradise; Is Our Mindset Geared Towards a Reality That Doesn't Exist?; Is It Sufficient to Be Hatched in a Swan's Egg?; Where Does the Black Swan Metaphor Come From?; Notable Black Swan Events; Black Swan Influencers; How Are Black Swans Different?; Are White Swans Really Disrupted by Black Swans?; Why Do Our Brains Register White Swans Rather Than Black Swans? |
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How to Recognize a Black Swan CompanyA View From the Hilltop; Key Reflections; 2 The Conventional Paradigm; How Businesses Become Blind; The Old School; Recipes for Good (or Bad?) Strategic Management!; Sticking to the Recipe; Excellence Is in the Eye of the Beholder; Built to Last But Not Necessarily to Stay Ahead; One Plus One Equals None; From Good to Great to Evergreen; Does It Work?; Great by Choice; The Mix of Excellence, How to Last, Great Leaps, and Things That Work; Troubled Waters; Prescriptions for Strategic Success or . . .?; The Game for Prescription |
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War + Market Economy = Michael PorterSwitching From External Focus to Internal Dedication; My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean; It Matters Now; The Conventional Paradigm Revisited; Key Reflections; 3 How a New Paradigm Is Emerging; On Emergence; Disruption as a Key Strategy Driver; Creative Destruction; Disruption Do's and Don'ts; Experimenting With Products, Services, Processes, and Business Models; Understanding Deeper Values; Innovation and Destruction-Two Sides of the Same Coin?; The New Mindset: When Black Swans Fly; The Big Picture; How to See What Does Not Yet Exist? |
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On the New Strategy MindsetChange Is Easier Thought Than Done: Cases of Lost Incumbents; Strategy and Cognition; Strategy, Different Mindsets, and Sets of Mind; Change and Motivation; Not Why but How the Emergence Takes Place; Key Reflections; 4 Towards a New Paradigm?; A Time of Transition; Five Important Dimensions of the Emerging Paradigm; The Surprise Dimension; The Innovation Dimension; The Cost Dimension; The X-Factor Dimension; The Regulatory Dimension; Further Perspectives; Summarizing; Key Reflections; PART II On the Inner Workings of Black Swans; 5 Apple, the Black Swan |
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A Cyclical Black Swan?The Importance of Secrecy or the Principle of 'Scared Silent'; How Product Development (e.g. of the iPhone) Takes Place; The Enforcement of Internal Secrecy; Does the Future Look as Sweet for Apple?; Key Reflections; 6 Aravind-the McDonaldization of Eye Care; Introduction: Humanitarianism, Camps, and McDonald's; Black Swan Emergence; Key Reflections; 7 Emirates Airlines-Globalization from the Desert; How it All Began; Reinventing Dubai; Rejecting Conventional Wisdom; The Government-Sheikh Subsidies Issue; Development From the Desert; Key Reflections |
| Summary |
Why is it that some companies turn out to be more successful when doing the opposite of what is prescribed in many of the current books on management and strategy?Interestingly, many of the companies depicted as very successful companies in the standard literature end up not faring well over time - probably because they somehow end up in a dangerous autopilot mode. What this suggests is that the conventional literature cookbook isn't telling us the whole story. Even if companies have temporarily developed from an ugly duckling to a white |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Business enterprises.
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Strategic planning.
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Management.
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management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
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Business enterprises
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Management
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Strategic planning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Poulfelt, Flemming.
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| ISBN |
1317818458 |
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9781317818458 |
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9781315818962 |
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1315818965 |
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9781317818441 |
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131781844X |
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