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Making Your Strategy Work on the Frontline

by cmorris | 6/24/2010 | No Comments »

Amy Gallo of The Harvard Business Review writes about Nilofer and The New How, sharing specific approaches on executing strategy within your company and case studies.

We’d love to see your comments at the end of the article!

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There’s More to Innovation Than Good Ideas

by Nilofer Merchant | 3/24/2010 | No Comments »

Business Week published a great extract from The New How. Tells about how I learned firsthand about the Air Sandwich.

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The New How is “Ambitious”

by Nilofer Merchant | 3/23/2010 | No Comments »

I like this. The MIT/Sloan Management Review writes…

If nothing else, Nilofer Merchant’s The New How: Building Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy is ambitious. While many management gurus go on about the value of employee empowerment, Merchant spends an entire book showing not only how strategy with input from all employees is better than strategy from a few people at the top, but also how to make it happen.

Less What, More How

by Nilofer Merchant | 3/22/2010 | No Comments »

I met Peter Deitz recently in Toronto, and was pleased to see in his latest post how useful The New How has been to him. he writes,

“In developing strategies, I have lacked a framework with which to consistently create collaborative and high-impact strategies. Fortunately, it’s this framework that represents the biggest gift in Merchant’s The New How. The author lays out a wonderfully methodical and (in theory) simple-to-implement process to help organizations surface break-through ideas from their team, avoid obvious pitfalls, and cultivate co-ownership of new strategies from the start.”

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