Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy

HBR IdeaCast

• Episode: Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy
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• Duration: 00:21:31
• Published: 2017-08-24 23:26

Raffaella Sadun, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains why seemingly common-sensical management practices are so hard to implement. After surveying thousands of organizations across the world, she found that only 6% of firms qualified as highly well-managed — and that managers mistakenly assumed they were all above average. She is a co-author of “Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?” in the September–October 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.