YOUR COMPETITION

11. STRATEGY

It’s All in the Sauce

12. BUDGETING

Reinventing the Ritual

13. ORGANIC GROWTH

So You Want to Start Something New

14. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Deal Heat and Other Deadly Sins

15. SIX SIGMA

So You Want to Start Something New

11

Strategy

IT’S ALL IN THE SAUCE

MORE THAN A FEW TIMES over the past three years, I have been on a speaking program or at a business conference with one big strategy guru or another. And more than a few times, I have listened to their presentations in disbelief.

It’s not that I don’t understand their theories about competitive advantage, core competencies, virtual commerce, supply chain economics, disruptive innovation, and so on, it’s just that the way these experts tend to talk ...

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