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Possibility Maximizer: Fast Company's 30 Second MBA

Sales Wolf Blog

  Each week a different topic or challenge is raised that business professionals can relate to regardless of the industry they work in or the role they play in their organization.  This week I've got a unique and excellent resource from Fast Company that I would like to point you to.  Enjoy! .  Enjoy! .

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. Prahalad's brilliance and persuasiveness certainly had something to do with it. It's practically the law of the land.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Xerox at that time was the undisputed leader of the copier industry, leasing a wide range of copiers to corporate copy centers through a huge sales force.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. In 2010, the government of Malaysia launched the third wave of its National Blue Ocean Strategy. Second, management matters. It has become fashionable in some places to mock management.