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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. JFK's intent produced many breakthrough technologies.

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie. Imagine a typical stock market portfolio, but instead of buying and selling shares of stock and other financial instruments, players float, advance and develop portfolios of ideas. -based company is a nimble competitor in a high-stakes and highly-structured industry.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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