A couple of my favorites are:
"Culture eats strategy for breakfast" - I was told this is on the wall at Ford Motor Company's war room
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen and to think what nobody else has thoguth." - Albert Szent-Gyo...
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Micro Environment Analysis
Here we need to understand the Interplay and Implications to the Organisation of:
1. General Economic conditions
2. Legislation and Regulations
3. Polulation Demographics
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Hi, Vivek, you mean Glomarization [the terms "Glomar response," and "Glomarization" are used to describe an agency's response when they can neither confirm nor deny whether records exist ( http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/jennifer.htm )], do...
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Why mergers acutally fail is because of a clash of corporate cultures
Have we addressed the cultural incompatibilities
Was cultural due diligence done correctly
Did we undertake cultural audit
Did we cre...
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Further, were similarities and differences assessed, do organisations have mutual respect for each other, do they acknowledge professional and individual competence, business capability etc.
Is there a d...
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It all depends, who has done the Due Diligence
Like Ayn Rand said:
Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that namele...
Thanks for sending me the link, Arik. Looks interesting, and I am glad to see you got Gabriel Andebjork with you. I am sure if Per Jenster had been at home in Shanghai right now he would have linked to come.
Take care,
From Stanford
Klaus