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Bound Thesis.Pdf, Michael Nixon
Bound Thesis.Pdf, Michael Nixon
Michael Nixon
Fight, flight, and freeze responses are a natural part of how we operate as humans. These responses permeate our lives and affect our decisions in major ways. This thesis first employs a case study to help the reader understand natural reaction processes, then analyzes case studies where businesses applied strategies that closely resembled these reaction processes. I then propose a framework to mimic physiological reaction processes to help companies arrive at the optimal solution.
Core Competencies, Core Values And Core Compromises, Jeffrey Keisler, Edward Romar
Core Competencies, Core Values And Core Compromises, Jeffrey Keisler, Edward Romar
Jeffrey Keisler
To achieve success businesses enunciate values and mission, secure resources, develop capabilities, and execute strategies. For firms to succeed, managers must make decision about what should remain, be abandoned and acquired or developed? In the decision-making process, management often overlooks, compromises, neglects, and dismisses the firm’s history, unique industry position, and fundamental strengths in a single-minded focus on the future. In this paper we discuss one aspect of strategy that is neglected in the literature. Most of the literature focuses on strategy and competencies, with little focus on or awareness of its opposite, the compromises management makes as they look …