5 Fav Business and Strategy Post — July 24

photo by pies­gar­diner

This con­tent from: Don­ald McMichael

I decided to ini­ti­ate a week blog post rou­tine that will high­light what I believe to be the 5 most inter­est­ing blog posts of the week. The area of focus will be the busi­ness and strat­egy arena while the sub­ject mat­ters will be insights, analy­sis of cur­rent events, or inter­views of interest.

While I’m not going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing. The photo in the post is my favorite for the week from Flickr.

This week’s findings:

1. 6 Real Com­pet­i­tive Advan­tages That No Other Com­pany Can Copy — Should you be con­cerned about some­one copy­ing your awe­some busi­ness idea?
2. ‘Buy one, donate one’ effort lets kids direct the giv­ing  — “Buy one, give one” ini­tia­tives are increas­ingly com­mon forms of cor­po­rate gen­eros­ity, but it wasn’t until recently that we began see­ing them involv­ing children.
3. How Tribal Lead­er­ship Can Help Build Inno­va­tion Cul­tures  — If you’re not famil­iar with Tribal Lead­er­ship†, it’s a book by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright that sum­ma­rizes 10 years of their expe­ri­ences in work­ing to help orga­ni­za­tions and offers some pat­terns and cat­e­gories used to define var­i­ous lev­els of leadership.
4. How VCs Cal­cu­late Val­u­a­tion (And How It’s Dif­fer­ent From The Way Founders Do It) — Under­stand­ing how VCs and entre­pre­neurs often see val­u­a­tion differently.
5. iPad Fuels Mag­a­zine Dis­rup­tion — While some pub­lish­ers eye the Apple iPad hope­fully as way of migrat­ing the print expe­ri­ence into a rich, mul­ti­me­dia domain as never before, oth­ers are already leap­ing over paper entirely to reach new read­ers with orig­i­nal dig­i­tal publications.