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Three Traps to Avoid When Choosing a Successor

Marshall Goldsmith

As you proceed in the succession process, you are going to have to let go. Your successor is going to manage your organization in the future - not you. Your successor is going to manage your organization in the future - not you. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14.

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Stop Selling And Start Leading

Eric Jacobson

The Five Practices created developed by Kouzes and Posner are all about these behaviors : Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act E ncourage the Heart The book teaches you how each practice is linked to today’s modern buyer preferences. They can fit inside an established sales process.

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Demonstrating the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Marshall Goldsmith

o Find your own market niche In the same way that successful entrepreneurs provide innovative solutions to market opportunities, you can work to develop a special competency that differentiates you from everyone else. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. Be creative. Life is good.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals.

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When the Invincible Become "Vincible"

Harvard Business Review

These were great companies with top-notch leadership, solid management processes, and access to the best and brightest strategists. Managers of successful firms tend to become complacent and even arrogant, assuming that past performance will continue and that the formulas that worked previously will work in the future.

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Seven Ways to Connect With Your Designer

Harvard Business Review

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. At the same time, design consultancies are increasingly looked at to spearhead the development process — from consumer research to design to prototyping, manufacturing and packaging.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. So if you want your company to "do good" in a way that also makes it more profitable, the process might start with you.