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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 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. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. World authority on project management.

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The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread Its Wings

The Horizons Tracker

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Under such conditions, entrepreneurs must be creators who build industries rather than disrupters who change them.”.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

The ability to do that rose to a new level in 1917, when General Motors was in financial difficulty and DuPont took a major position in the company. (GM DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. That value must be measured across all stakeholders.

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