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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages. Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. a holding company that operates seven distinct business.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. He was right.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. He was right.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

When ROE holds sway, a more or less certain return on a cost-reduction investment nearly always trumps a speculative bet on a new business model. That only makes sense if you are operating in a state of equilibrium—which might have been close enough to the truth in some sepia-toned time. As the late C.

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