“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” – Groucho Marx
In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come up for air once a month to read Harvard Business Review. It was not only my secret weapon in thinking about new startup strategies, it also gave me a view of the management issues my customers were dealing with.
Through Harvard Business Review I discovered the work of Peter Drucker and first read about management by objective. I learned about Michael Porter’s five forces. But the eye-opener for me was reading Clayton Christensen’s article on disruption in the mid-1990s and then reading the Innovators Dilemma. Each of these authors, along with others too numerous to mention, profoundly changed my view of management and strategy. All of this in one magazine, with no hype, just a continual stream of great ideas.
For decades this revered business magazine described management techniques that were developed in and were for large corporations –…
