Three To-Do’s (And To-Don’ts) of 21st Century Strategy

Here is another interesting post from Umair Haque.  Never heard of him?  I stumbled upon him through the Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alert, which puts a sampling of HBS professors’ blogs into your inbox every morning. Scanning these “headlines” is a great kick in the pants every morning. I highly recommend it.

The tease: Umair says “The 20th century ended a decade ago, but the 21st century never began: the noughties were a lost decade, where jobs weren’t created, innovation became unnovation, and prosperity itself failed.

2010 is the real first year of the 21st century. And it’s going to be a year of conflict between the leaders of the old, fraying institutions of the 20th century, and the builders revolutionizing those institutions in the 21st.

Here’s a framework for thinking strategically in the 21st century. Six soft “wars” will define 2010 — and beyond. Three are conflicts no organization should fight, and three are struggles every organization who wants to survive, develop, innovate and prosper must…”

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