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Why Abu Dhabi Will Help Dubai
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I just spent a month in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, and I returned to London impressed by its can-do attitude — an attitude I find in abundance when I travel to emerging markets. Shortly after my departure, the UAE’s growing significance to the world economy became all too apparent when news of Dubai’s debt exposure sent tremors through still-shaky markets. Only the federal government in Abu Dhabi, while remaining censorious of the excesses in its sister Emirate of Dubai, can prevent Dubai World from becoming the Lehman Brothers of emerging markets.

How Britannica Defied the Odds
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Conventional wisdom would have us believe that in a world where Wikipedia is the first port of call for millions of people, an encyclopaedia, such as Britannica, should no longer exist: There is nothing “Blue Ocean” about leather bound books. As far as its competitive position is concerned, it could not be worse: why pay for information when the same information is available for free?

Behind the moral DNA of a great enterprise
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The relative merits of short- and long-term approaches to running companies have been argued over for many years. Which is best: to focus on operational effectiveness and immediate financial returns or on longer-term strategic positioning? Neither, says consultant and author Nikos Mourkogiannis, in Purpose.

Purpose, Alignment, and Health Care
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My Google alerts on the use of the word "purpose" increased dramatically once health-care reform captured the headlines. And in reading those alerts, I was fascinated to see how the thinking on the subject evolved.

A Leader's Real Job Description
www.bloomberg.com

Nikos Mourkogiannis describes the four actions you need to master to stay on track and focus on what matters

How to Build a Winning Team
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Guest columnist Nikos Mourkogiannis says a group's success ultimately depends on its balance. He offers a simplified framework to get the right mix

Four Routes to Success - Purpose is always the starting point
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Best Business Books: Negotiation
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Art, Science, and Wisdom, or the Logic of Leverage

Culture Change: Calling on Philosophers and Engineers
www.strategy-business.com

By blending the poetic with the quotidian, organizational strategies and cultures can find common ground.

The Realist’s Guide to Moral Purpose
www.strategy-business.com

Four ideals of leadership that appeal to our deepest instincts -- and can inspire a company to long-term success.

Purpose and Innovation
www.strategy-business.com

How to optimize corporate R&D efforts.

Purposeful Leadership
www.amanet.org

The difference between “management” and “leadership” has produced more commentary than almost any other business subject, but much of it lacks practical applicability. To remedy this, I have developed the “TIME Leadership Framework,” which I believe can be enormously helpful for managers who are taking on leadership responsibilities.

HR's return to purpose‐focused organizations
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Volume 35 2008, Issue 2, Pages 25-30

Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Leadership
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Volume 2007, Issue 44, Pages 26-32

on purpose
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Determining the purpose that motivates you can be the key to finding fulfillment in life and success at work

Using Purpose to Drive Innovation
iveybusinessjournal.com

While there is an innovator’s dilemma, there is also an innovator’s purpose. Less well known, an innovator’s purpose drives innovators to see beyond current convention, counters the natural risk aversion that large companies have to innovation, and mobilizes employees to accomplish their goal. As this author writes, purpose-driven innovation is the only way to change the rules of the game for lasting advantage.

PURPOSE
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How to Define It and Make It Work for You and Your Company

Purpose the game of champion organizations
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Let others play with "strategy" and "tactics". Purpose is the game of champion organizations, enabling leaders to inspire and lead their organizations to greateness.

Purpose led planning and strategy execution
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Purpose is invaluable to all organizations, serving as a call for action that leaders can use to stimulate staff to act consistently and decisively.

The return in HR from purpose focused organizations
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Recognition of Purpose's importance helps organizations acquire, deploy, develop and retain its workforce in an environment of intense competition for talented employees, and also recognize the contribution that HR can have on companies' bottom lines.

Purpose - Τhe search for strategic alignment
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All leaders, not just top CEOs, face difficult strategic decisions throughout their carreers. The single factor that helps them make these decisions correctly is an understanding of what their organization is really trying to do: its Purpose.

The True Purpose of the Board
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Great Leaders are driven by a purpose that goes beyond the profit motive; shareholders are primarily interested in profit. It's up to the board of directors to bring them together.

"Purpose": An interview with Nikos Mourkogiannis
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Nikos Mourkogiannis talks to Alistair Craven about his new book "Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies".

Thinking on Purpose
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Determining the purpose that motivates you can be the key to finding fulfillment in life and success at work. Nikos Mourkogiannis tells you how.

Negotiation art, science, and wisdom or the logic of leverage
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Best Business Books: Negotiation

The search for Purpose
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For many years I worked for one of the world's leading strategy consultancies. On my typical assignment, watching CEOs evaluating the pros and cons of our recommendations, I would always find myself wondering, "What is really the determining their decision?"

Pankaj Ghemawat: Redefining Global Strategy
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Foreword by Nikos Mourkogiannis

Nikos Mourkogiannis: Brexit, but with what Purpose?
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Nikos Mourkogiannis: A Leader’s Real Job Description
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Development does not negotiate
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