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There’s a number most government leaders would rather not think about. For Jamaica, it’s nine dollars. That’s the country’s productivity measured as output per hour worked — US$9. Barbados, a neighboring island economy, produces more than twice that. Panama produces five times as much. Most strikingly, Jamaica’s hourly output is only marginally ahead of Haiti’s …
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Most top executives can generate urgency around a quarterly target. The mechanisms are familiar: dashboards, deadlines, compensation levers. People move. But ask those same executives to build genuine momentum toward a grand aspiration which needs a fifteen-year horizon, and something strange happens. They show up. They nod. They wait for the pressure to pass. This …
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There is a book on the shelf of almost every serious executive in the world. It has sold over four million copies, been translated into 46 languages, and spawned an entire consulting industry. Its central idea is so compelling that once you hear it, you cannot unhear it. The book is Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS), …
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