Modern Voices

Strategic Agility

There are two dimensions of strategic agility, namely strategic sensitivity – that is, the way in which an organization views the world and whether it is ‘open-minded’ and attentive enough to sense new opportunities and discontinuities – and secondly, ‘resource fluidity’ which relates to whether companies can redeploy resources rapidly enough to quickly exploit emerging opportunities in a complex and fast-changing environment.

--Fast Strategy: How  strategic agility will help you stay ahead of the game
by Yves Doz and Mikko Kosenen

Social Entrepreneurs: Making Meaning and Making Profit

"We can no longer divorce where we do business from  where we do good.

You are part of a historical transition that will culminate with every business, large or small, having to be a social business. There has never been a more urgent time for connecting markets and meaning.”

--Pamela Hartigan, co-founder of the Schwab  Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and author of ‘The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets  that Change the World.’

             

Mainstream business, financial and political leaders are having to come to grips with emerging trends in value creation because consumers and voters are increasingly demanding that they do so.
via INSEAD

Feelings are GPS System of Life

"Feelings are really your GPS system for life. Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead."

--Oprah Winfrey, Stanford University's 117th Commencement Address, June 15, 2008