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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

2: Create new technology enabled business models: GE’s Jeff Immelt and Dartmouth Professor Govindarajan are back, with lessons on digital transformation. In either case, Digital Transformation is an opportunity for established companies to play a more innovative role in non-traditional ways. Go forth and transform. * * *.

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Your Leadership Mission Should Fit on a T-Shirt!

Marshall Goldsmith

Peter Drucker instilled this short phrase in me, “Your mission statement should fit on a T-Shirt,” as he did with so many others, and it has guided my career for many decades. For instance, Vijay Govindarajan, who does an excellent job of helping at the corporate strategy domain. I replied, “Interesting possibility.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Liz Smith – Chairman and CEO, Bloomin’ Brands (Outback, Flemings, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill) – one of the world’s largest casual dining companies. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company.

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

This is not fair to my client, to the company or to me. The people who I am coaching are all CEOs or potential CEOs, and the company is making a real investment in their development. These are the people who have great careers in front of them. Govindarajan, B. 4) Pick something to improve yourself. Goldsmith, V.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Four Destructive Myths Most Companies Still Live By. Do you perpetuate these productivity-destroying falsehoods at your company? Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally. Which of your activities are actually important to your career, and which merely provide the illusion of progress? by Vijay Govindarajan.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. Kim and Renée Maubourgne, the authors of Blue Ocean Strategy , have influenced companies, not-for-profits and national governments around the world. Christensen's influence on the business world has been profound.

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The $300 House: The Corporate Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. Burns shares insights from her company's forays into bringing business into social challenges. Today, Stephanie A. Dow Corning is asking this question. Stephanie A.