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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former CEO, Carlson.

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

Harvard Business Review

They operate with extreme cost and process efficiency, which enables them to enjoy good margins and profits even while charging low prices. The German-based retail chain Aldi and the Swedish furniture company IKEA are masters at this. At the same time, Honda was developing a much simpler and extremely inexpensive model called the Wave.

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

Harvard Business Review

It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. To deal with this problem, over the course of thirty-five years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world, I have developed a simple, practical framework that recognizes all three competing challenges managers face when leading innovation.