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Seven strata of strategy

The challenge is balancing all the complexities of strategy while keeping it coherent and simple. It’s no secret that the recession has decimated the building industry the last few years. But Jeff...

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Why Rackspace rocks

Rackspace are a Texas based cloud computing provider which are a long time Gazelles International client and signature story. Rackspace have created strong core values, core purpose and BHAG along with...

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The real value of a BHAG is in the Hedgehog.

In our work with management teams one of the thought leaders we use is Jim Collins and his book ‘Good to Great’, an in depth analysis on a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and...

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Differentiating activities – Jiffy Lube example

Founded in 1972 Jiffy Lube is a franchised drive through oil change shop that changes your oil & filters, tops up your other oils and vacuums your cars interior in less than 10 minutes and without...

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What is Scaling Up?

This video is a summary of the book Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and should give you an understanding of the subjects and key concepts in the book. I’m going to talk about who the book is intended for,...

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The 2 lenses of strategy

What is strategy? The word strategy, which first started appearing in business literature around the 1960’s has many different meanings to different people.  The best definition I find is that of...

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