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    <title>Elephants and cheetahs: the beauty of operations</title>
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    <dateIssued>2021</dateIssued>
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  <abstract>Do systems have souls? This book, based on a popular elective at IIM Ahmedabad, looks for answers in the hard trade-offs inherent in the design of operating systems and business models. It encourages business leaders to ask two different sets of existential questions: Does the organization that I am managing have a soul, and if so, what are the strategic choices that enable its synthesis (external orientation)? And, do I have a soul, and if so, who am I (internal orientation)? In the process, it uncovers a beauty inherent in patterns of strategic choices that enables an organizational soul to emerge, and an appreciation of the diversity of such souls.</abstract>
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    <topic>Strategic Planning</topic>
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    <topic>Operations Research</topic>
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