Building a Competitive Advantage

What if you pursued the art of strategy much like the art of war, instead of approaching it as an arduous exercise?

Tony Hsieh has built his success on taking risks.

A quick scroll through the list of Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies and for all their success, operational efficiencies, and strong corporate cultures, one…

Experts on corporate culture offer solutions, but universally emphasize the hard work required to continuously cultivate a strong culture that will create competitive advantages.

When Steve Jobs was in the throes of conceiving how the now iconic Apple Stores would look and function, he opted to go beyond the…

Otha T. “Skip” Spriggs III, Executive Vice President, CHRO, TIAA-CREF, on overcoming the lack of executive female representation at the executive level.

Generally speaking, what gives one company a competitive edge over another?

Whether it’s Citigroup or Nintendo, it’s all about reinventing the business model to better serve customer needs.

There is a phenomenon in sociology called collective intelligence, which occurs when shared intelligence emerges from a group of knowledgeable individuals.

It’s difficult enough for a company the size of Cisco Systems Inc. to be innovative when times are good.

In the rising aircraft market of 2007, Hawker Beechcraft looked like a good, synergistic investment for Goldman Sachs and OneX when they bought the company.

This year, Insigniam published findings from a survey of middle managers in Global 1000 companies in the healthcare, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, manufacturing, fast moving consumer goods,…