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Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-Suite

Innov8rs

By adopting an open strategy, leadership teams can access diverse external knowledge sources and become aware of their biases, while also building buy-in to accelerate execution. Christian reports that corporates with open-minded leadership have over 50% of all strategic initiatives open. Are You Ready To Open Up Your Strategy?

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The Orange Socks Story I’ve Never Written Before

BrainZooming

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. The presentation took place at Arrowhead Stadium, where the Kansas City Chiefs play. On October 22, 1997, I wore orange socks for the first time. I said I hadn’t.

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How to spend $200+ Billion for a Train Wreck

Mills-Scofield

We presented our design to the powers that were. 2002: AT&T sells AT&T Broadband to Comcast for $47.5B This way, we only needed 1 network (with tons of security & safeguards obviously) to handle everything. The days of a voice-only network built on big expensive switches was over. I saw this and worked on this firsthand.