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HCI M-Prize - Enter Your Best Idea! @hackmanagement @human_capital

Management Craft

The contest is put on my Gary Hamel's Management Innovation Exchange (the MiX) and the Human Capital Institute (HCI). Bottom-line. My idea was not necessarily any better than the others, but the judges told me that one of the things that put my entry out front was the level of detail I provided in my final write up. The prizes?

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Market Correction? Try Perma-Crisis

Harvard Business Review

I'd bet, given recent events in the markets, like many, you'd like to get to the bottom of what the heck is really going on here. They're deeply broken, and throwing money at broken institutions doesn't fix them — it does the very opposite: it entrenches them, shores them up, fortifies them against the future.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. This is why innovation is so important and takes up so much room in press and annual reports. Such propositions come from innovation.

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Case Study: When Key Employees Clash

Harvard Business Review

Kid Spectrum's previous owner, Arthur Hamel, had told Matthew that Ellen, with nearly two decades of experience in health services, would be one of his biggest assets. He's not up to the job," Ellen said now. Eight years old, such a good kid, but he's struggling with school, and his aide seems like she wants to give up.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Bottom line…If you’re a leader and not an avid reader, you’re wrong. Up until a few years ago Rick Warren read a book every single day. With what I’ve noted thus far I’m always amazed at the number of executives who don’t keep up with their professional reading. Do I have your attention yet?

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”). But that just shrinks the pie as, in the rush to the bottom, profitability declines for the entire industry. Focusing on a few key success factors, critical resources, and core competencies (maybe a reference to C.

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Letting Gen Y Lead a Management Makeover

Harvard Business Review

Comfortable with the transparency of social networking sites, they bump up against information silos and knowledge hoarding. My confidence in Gen Y — as well as my faith in bottom-up innovation — has been reinforced over the past month as I perused the entries submitted to the HCL MBA M-Prize.

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