Categories: Business & Economics
This is for managers who know that their organizations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies are little more than banal wish lists.
It puts forward th
This is for managers who know that their organizations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies are little more than banal wish lists.
It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense—thinking or acting differently from other organizations in a way that makes unusual sense—is the secret to competitive success.
Jules Goddard is a fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School.
Tony Eccles is a visiting professor of strategic management at Cass Business School, City University, London.
