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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. Strategy.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Top-rated Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. World authority on project management.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

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. There are two views on strategy. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. Gary Hamel and C.K.

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When the Invincible Become "Vincible"

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad used to recommend that a company's strategy should be developed by its thirty-year-old rookies instead of its veterans: The new guard will be more vested in the future than the past. We stay with what we know has worked, assuming that our careers are secure. That's why the late C.K.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

But Dan Pink's recent book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us tackles the perennial subject of motivation, and argues that we need to abandon the ineffectual carrot and stick approach, and the importance of doing something we love for a career. Finally, management ideas can be the catalyst for a better future.