14: Being Creative Part 1: Practice of Recrafting Strategic Performance in Changing Times

The following sections are included:

• Making Paths to the Future

• Segment 1: Being Better and Being Different

  • Introduction: Ushering-in the iConnected Paradigm

  • Strategy's Evolution: American Business in the Industrial Paradigm

  • Strategic Responses: Being Better and/or Being Different

• Segment 2: “Strategy as…” Renditions

  • Manufacturing from Anywhere Competes Everywhere

  • Metastasizing Turbulence: Black Clouds Over the Industrial Paradigm

  • "Strategy as…" Renditions: Silver Linings in an Overcast Sky

• Segment 3: Challenges of Sustainable Development and Globality

  • Tipping the Balance: Challenges and a New World Order

  • Challenge 1: Sustainable Development

  • Challenge 2: Globality — New Way of Being and Doing?

• Segment 4: Challenge of Social Media

  • Challenge 3: Social Media

  • Conclusion