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Demonstrating the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Marshall Goldsmith

He beamed at the hundreds of young people in the audience and said: "Looking back on my career, I don't feel like I have ever worked a day in my life. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. If you really love what you are doing, it all seems like fun!" Life is good.

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Why Entrepreneurs Will Beat Multinationals to the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. On the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication, Professor Prahalad was interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Luke Joerger – Digital Marketing / Audience Development / Dir. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’. World authority on project management.

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Patagonia's Provocative Black Friday Campaign

Harvard Business Review

Patagonia knew it had the audience and strategy, but that it needed eBay to pull off the campaign. The well-known article on core competencies by Prahalad and Hamel (1991) best defines and lays out this rigorous task. So why does this Systemic Authenticity thing work?