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ACS on Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review (HBR.org) has posted essays by ACS’ Mark Chussil. Here are links.
Did You Win or Did They Lose?
How do upstarts win? Why do incumbents lose? Upstarts can only win if incumbents let themselves lose.
The Track-Record Fallacy
How do we know when someone is skillful at competing? The thing is, it’s hard to tell the difference between luck and skill…
Why Strategies Fail
When strategists choose bad strategies, strategies fail. That sounds obvious, except no strategist purposely chooses a bad strategy. Strategists are smart, experienced, industry-savvy, data-rich, and highly motivated to succeed. Yet smart strategists can and do choose bad strategies, and bad strategies fail.
The War (Game) Metaphor
This is something I’ve learned from all those war games: Watch out for the war metaphor in your strategic thinking, and challenge it if you see it. The challenge doesn’t cost you anything. You can always go back to the war metaphor if you really think it works.