Algeria

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Cornerstone MoveThink Big, Start Small, Move Before Permission

Signature MoveBuild the Organization Around the Opportunity

Operating PrincipleMarket as Coordination Without a Leader

Signature MoveSpeed as Antidote to Bureaucratic Paralysis

Competitive AdvantageSelf-Confidence as Prerequisite Resource

Signature MoveLeadership Over Capital as Launch Fuel

Identity & CultureDreamer With Feet on the Ground

Strategic PatternNon-Hydrocarbon Wealth in an Oil State

Cornerstone MoveOpportunity Where Others See State Wreckage

Signature MoveEnvironment Reader Not Environment Victim

Risk DoctrineResults Before Ideology or Demobilization Follows

Signature MoveThirty Percent Turnover as Pruning Not Failure

Signature MoveFormer Bosses Report to Former Subordinates, Same Pay

Capital StrategyConservative Treasury, Radical Operations

Identity & CultureImmigrant Hunger as Hiring Filter

Signature MoveMemos Replaced by Oral OK and a Sharp Pencil

Competitive AdvantagePay What You're Worth, No Salary Schedule

Cornerstone MoveProduct-Owner as Mini-CEO Guillotine

Risk DoctrineDay-One Honesty in Every Acquisition

Decision FrameworkStars to Priorities, Privates to Sergeant

Signature MoveUnmanaged Pigs as Growth Path for Non-Managers

Signature MoveRank Everyone Against Everyone, No Threes Allowed

Cornerstone MoveUndevelop the Product Until Someone Can Afford It

Strategic PatternAcquire the Product, Architect the Bridge

Cornerstone MoveAcquire Products Not Talent, Then Gut the Org Chart

Cornerstone MoveZero-Based Thinking: Restart the Company Every Year

Primary Evidence

"Algeria, like Russia, is a very promising nation. It can succeed in everything. But its social base, its youth, the most precious of its resources, must remain enthusiastic and confident that it can build. Contributing to this motivates this collection."

Source:Issad Rebrab, Think Big, Start Small and Go Fast

"Audacity, the principal ingredient in most informal and thus evolving organizations, is nowhere more evident than in guer- rilla warfare, which carries not knowing your place to the ulti- mate. Yet in every situation where guerrilla forces have been victorious because of the aggressiveness of local commanders— from colonial America to modern-day China, Algeria, Cuba— the next stage is so woefully predictable it has become a cliché: a hierarchy is formed, frozen in time, and fixed in place. While"

Source:Twenty-First-Century Management _ the Revolutionary Strategies That Have Made Computer Associates a Multibillion-Dollar Software Giant

Appears In Volumes

Issad Rebrab, Think Big, Start Small and Go Fast Twenty-First-Century Management _ the Revolutionary Strategies That Have Made Computer Associates a Multibillion-Dollar Software Giant