Michael Porter articulated the difference between strategy and operational effectiveness in his seminal 1996 HBR article, "What Is Strategy?" The article's analysis of strategy and the strategist's role is rightly influential, but our research shows that simple managerial competence is more important and less imitable than Porter argued.
Prior to going to Berlin, I'd never been to a rave; the word "clubbing" summoned memories of getting rejected at SoHo nightclubs for wearing the wrong shoes, and I couldn't have articulated the difference between EDM, techno, and beep-boop robot noises.
It has a very wide purview; it's worth candidates finding out exactly what they're interested in, and making sure they can articulate the differences between types of council – particularly the council to which they are applying.
For example, many strategists said Vice President Al Gore used the hours of television exposure to articulate the differences between his health care plan and that of his rival, former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey.
President Obama's next nominee needs to improve upon Sotomayor's performance by articulating the differences between judicial conservatives and progressives and focusing on how the Constitution and the law itself point in a progressive direction.
It is our task to clearly articulate the differences between sliding scale insulin and scheduled insulin doses that include both nutritional and correctional (supplemental) insulin for our colleagues and the next generation of clinicians.
In my book "Friendships Don't Just Happen!" I teach the five Circles of Connectedness -- the five different types of friends we have and need -- to help us articulate the difference between the different roles that various friends can play in our lives.
The more I tried to articulate the difference between myself and the goat, the more we had in common.
Often the most useful exercise is just to compare some bad writing with some good, and then learn how to articulate the difference between the two.
Comprising stacked towers of column-free laboratories, this was the first of his projects to articulate the difference between "served and servant spaces" – the latter being stairwells, airducts and other supportive networks.
