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Stop Training Your Employees To Not Try

Joseph Lalonde

Prahalad wrote about in one of their books. The authors tell the story of four monkeys placed into a room. And the employees don’t understand why they can’t attempt something new. This makes me think about the monkey experiment Gary Hamel and C.K. In the room is a pole with bananas at the top.

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Making Your Products Accessible to Underserved Markets

Harvard Business Review

Case-in-point: the Bottom of the Pyramid theory, created by Indian-American researcher and author CK Prahalad. Prahalad argued that the world’s poorest people constituted the “bottom of the pyramid” (BoP) and presented a massive opportunity for the world’s wealthiest companies.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Similarly, CK Prahalad’s work on the bottom of the pyramid from the beginning of this century is still hugely influential. Among the other women in the top 50 was Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of the 2013 book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead ; and former Oracle executive Liz Wiseman. For example, at No.2

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Book Review: Multipliers

LDRLB

Don’t be fooled by the title, the authors do NOT offer research support for their claim that leadership can make folks smarter. The other serious flaw is the authors don’t really introduce any new concepts. Prahalad, who I consider a giant among management thinkers. Chris Argyris , W.E. have not already said.

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Stop Selling And Start Leading

Eric Jacobson

“Today’s savvy buyers are impatient with old-school selling tactics and stereotypical sales behaviors,” explain the authors of the new book, Stop Selling And Start Leading: How to Make Extraordinary Sales Happen. Provide the unexpected that triggers a euphoric response. Connect with buyers personally.

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Demonstrating the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Marshall Goldsmith

While you can never become the world authority on everything, you can definitely become a world authority on one thing. For example, my own mission is to be the world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior. The same can be true for individuals. Life is good.

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Products and Services that Address Deep Rooted Social Problems

Strategy Driven

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. About the Author. Perhaps you’ve read the game-shifting books The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid , by C.K. These are just two of hundreds of other examples.