Boozallen
Strategy and Business is the magazine/ content strategy and branding arm of Booz Allen (Booz Co. nowadays) and has been around for 15 years. Their editors chose the 50 “best” articles in this period. Some we’ve already read and really are worth it, and most are probably interesting. Get them while you can, but just remember the old “there’s only 24 hours in a day” warning.
Nothing new, but always nice to emphasize. Booz & Co.’s Strategy & Business has a summary of a recent paper on CEO compensation. It’s public knowledge that it has skyrocketed in the last 20 years or so, but this paper searches for a driver – and finds it in “compensation benchmarking”. You could also call it “The grass is always greener” effect.
Strategy & Business published a review for The Curse of The Mogul, which we’ve read recently. It’s a must-read for several reasons: media, capital allocation, competitive strategy and leadership. Not that we agree with Greenwald 100%. Chapter 2, on competitive strategy, is especially interesting because it assesses the competitive strategy framework from a specific industry’s standpoint (always better than ‘generic speeches’) and it was useful for thinking about other industries as well.
Booz Allen is offering words of caution on crowdsourcing. It is a new thing, therefore relatively untested, and it certainly has its optimal applications and its limits – which probably haven’t been found yet. It’s just another tool available and should be subject to the same rigorous analysis before the company starts using it.
