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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

Our most successful coaching clients are executives who are committed to being great role models for leadership development and for living their company’s values. We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management.

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It's Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement

Harvard Business Review

To compete with this miraculous turnaround, Western companies, starting with Motorola, began to adopt Japanese methods. Now, almost every large Western company, and many smaller ones, advocate for continuous improvement. It has created tremendous value and still drives competitive advantage in many companies and industries.

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Task Shifting Could Help Lower Costs in U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. Similarly, unable to lure trained personnel to work in India’s countryside, LV Prasad Eye Institute has developed a team of vision technicians to perform basic eye tests in villages and small towns. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work. Add to Cart.

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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

What’s missing from the managerial toolkit is a way for managers to allocate their—and their organization’s—time and attention and resources on a day-to-day basis across the competing demands of managing today’s requirements and tomorrow’s possibilities. Vijay Govindarajan. Excerpted from.

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. The company's core control mechanisms — the means by which it decides how to allocate resources, start and stop projects, and so on — were organized to do one thing: minimize mistakes. That's just what my life is like.

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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.