Strategy has been having a wonderful run for management's money. Once, strategy was the somewhat arcane province of long-range corporate planners. Now senior managers themselves…
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Business history is littered with the corpses of companies that were hailed and deeply admired, not just by ephemeral stock markets and their acolytes, but…