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Possibility Maximizer: Fast Company's 30 Second MBA

Sales Wolf Blog

Department of Labor Home Page Tom Peters, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Change Guru TUTs Adventurers Club: Explore the power of thought & creative visualization to manifest dreams!   Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility.

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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. They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. This can be part of your strategy. million in annual revenues.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

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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. Independent of any altruistic motives, engaging with the BOP can help designers and innovators gain insight into the following three key issues: 1. The same is increasingly true in developed economies.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of these companies now believe that "doing good" can be a powerful strategy for growing markets, stimulating innovation, motivating employees, tapping into new talent pools, and actually reducing costs. As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. , Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid.

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Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How

Harvard Business Review

This is especially problematic when companies decide to innovate. If you don't have a clear understanding of why you are pursuing an innovation, you risk being wasteful and ineffective, and could lack strong differentiators from incumbents. What are our core insights that will lead us to market-shaping innovations?"

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

Harvard Business Review

The choice of the price position affects the overall business model, the product quality, branding, and how to innovate. At the same time, Honda was developing a much simpler and extremely inexpensive model called the Wave. This is a strategy Tuck’s VG Govindarajan calls “reverse innovation.”

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