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Demonstrating the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Marshall Goldsmith

Why I realize we cannot all be entrepreneurial in the sense that we can't all start our own companies, I believe we can all be entrepreneurial in terms of how we approach our own careers. He is the founder of GMR Infrastructure, which is now a large infrastructure company in India. This is one of the reasons that he is so successful."

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Stop Selling And Start Leading

Eric Jacobson

For instance, while buyers most want to talk about : What my company is trying to achieve with the purchase The reasons my company needs to make the purchase My company’s overall goals … sellers most want to talk about : Pricing How the product/service works (a product demo) So, if you sell, you need to read this book.

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The Fine Line Between When Low Prices Work and When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Winning with low prices is not merely a game of math in which you stay one notch below the competition; it is far more a game of culture and attitude. It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable. The groundbreaking price war in the U.S.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company. Healthcare Leaders.

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Why Entrepreneurs Will Beat Multinationals to the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. On the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication, Professor Prahalad was interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton. But this approach seldom works.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor — the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid — you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low profit margins, and high sales volumes. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S. It was laid down by C.K.

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Design Lessons from the Consumer at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.