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His purpose was strategic: to show up at the meeting with something so substantive that everyone else would have to fall into the role of simply proposing modifications to it, so that the overall shape, and therefore schedule, of the project would be roughly as he wanted.
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Riding Giants

At an HBS event tonight in Milan, the managing director of McKinsey Mediterrenean Complex Vittorio Terzi said that drivers for growth are 65% momentum (or riding the right wave), 5% excellence (or being better at executing than your competitors) and 30% M&A.

How good you are impacts the final outcome only at 5%! So you’d better pick the right wave to ride …

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