Comments on: Strategy: A Different Kind of Smart http://blog.jthawes.com/2009/06/08/strategy-a-different-kind-of-smart/ Helping Smart People Think Clearly About Strategy Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tom Hawes http://blog.jthawes.com/2009/06/08/strategy-a-different-kind-of-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Tom Hawes Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:27:48 +0000 http://tomhawes.wordpress.com/?p=257#comment-45 Allison, As far as I know, WordPress doesn"t support RSS feeds. I think that you can try something like BlogSurfer. Hope this helps. --Tom Allison,

As far as I know, WordPress doesn”t support RSS feeds. I think that you can try something like BlogSurfer. Hope this helps.

–Tom

]]> By: allison http://blog.jthawes.com/2009/06/08/strategy-a-different-kind-of-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-44 allison Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:12:17 +0000 http://tomhawes.wordpress.com/?p=257#comment-44 Is it not possible to subscribe to your blog via rss feed? I don't see a way to do it from your blog site. Thanks. Is it not possible to subscribe to your blog via rss feed? I don’t see a way to do it from your blog site. Thanks.

]]> By: Alan S Michaels http://blog.jthawes.com/2009/06/08/strategy-a-different-kind-of-smart/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Alan S Michaels Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:23:36 +0000 http://tomhawes.wordpress.com/?p=257#comment-43 Tom, I greatly enjoy reading your blog posts; they are well written, enlightening, and really fun to read. In addition, I agree with all of your observations. Two additions I would add from my 30 years of experience: 1) Most business executives are very smart as individuals - but companies and internal organizations of are not. (I also believe the same is true in politics where individual politicians are generally smart people, but political organizations operate in ways that do not highlight smarts. Individual intelligence can sometimes be measured across many areas. We need a better way to measure the intelligence of Groups.) 2) In your sentence that begins with "The biggest problem that business leaders sometimes have is..." my view on how to complete that thought is: The biggest problem business leaders have is they do not have a global game board for discussing the global economy in which they operate. Government industry classification systems do not work for most business professionals; and most information companies provide industry sector information at too high a level for most line-of-business managers to. Discussing strategies without a context game board is very hard. (To address the above, eCompetitors.com has spent the last eight years building what might be the first global game board developed at the line-of-business level for the Top 10,000 industries.) Tom,

I greatly enjoy reading your blog posts; they are well written, enlightening, and really fun to read.

In addition, I agree with all of your observations.

Two additions I would add from my 30 years of experience:

1) Most business executives are very smart as individuals – but companies and internal organizations of are not. (I also believe the same is true in politics where individual politicians are generally smart people, but political organizations operate in ways that do not highlight smarts. Individual intelligence can sometimes be measured across many areas. We need a better way to measure the intelligence of Groups.)

2) In your sentence that begins with “The biggest problem that business leaders sometimes have is…” my view on how to complete that thought is:
The biggest problem business leaders have is they do not have a global game board for discussing the global economy in which they operate. Government industry classification systems do not work for most business professionals; and most information companies provide industry sector information at too high a level for most line-of-business managers to. Discussing strategies without a context game board is very hard.

(To address the above, eCompetitors.com has spent the last eight years building what might be the first global game board developed at the line-of-business level for the Top 10,000 industries.)

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