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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. As hard as it may be, you have to let him or her begin to make a bigger and bigger difference in developing strategy. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. What doesn't he think like me? Life is good.

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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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Why Entrepreneurs Will Beat Multinationals to the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. On the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication, Professor Prahalad was interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton. But this approach seldom works.

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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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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

While scale can create real advantage, it also can carry downsides such as molasses-like decision making processes or inflexibility. Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

While scale can create real advantage, it also can carry downsides such as molasses-like decision making processes or inflexibility. Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

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