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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business.

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

The problem is following a plan so closely without responding to events that you will “lead the company efficiently in the wrong direction.” In fact, says McKeown, unplanned opportunities may be your best chance of creating a great strategy. In a sense, strategy creates risk.

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Possibility Maximizer: Fast Company's 30 Second MBA

Sales Wolf Blog

 This week I've got a unique and excellent resource from Fast Company that I would like to point you to.  Enjoy!   The Resource:    Fast Company's 30 Second MBA What it is:   30 Second MBA is a unique video resource that in some ways resembles a virtual university.

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When Leadership Coaching Works (And When It Doesn't)

Marshall Goldsmith

Q: When does leadership coaching work? CK Prahalad or Vijay Govindarajan), most - including me - are not. When will coaching aimed at changing leadership behavior be most effective? One pharmaceutical company called and asked me to coach "Dr. The strategy of the company is ultimately determined by its top executives.

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Test Your Core Competencies

CO2

I also like Hamel and Prahalad three-question test for helping clients determine if one of their capabilities is actually a core competency : Does the capability make a disproportionate contribution to the ultimate customer value, and/or does it allow the company to deliver value to customers in an appreciably more efficient way?

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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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Products and Services that Address Deep Rooted Social Problems

Strategy Driven

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. Located in economically depressed Yonkers, NY, the company was the first in New York State to achieve B Corp certification. The lamp becomes a ladder out of poverty.