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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. As the U.S.

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. So if we’re responsible for an entire organization, then we tend to think in those terms and act accordingly. It is the combination of tight circles and loose connections that drives high performing organizations. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent.

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. So if we’re responsible for an entire organization, then we tend to think in those terms and act accordingly. It is the combination of tight circles and loose connections that drives high performing organizations. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

By parsing ROE into the DuPont Equation (very rapidly to become a business school mainstay), he provided the basis for organizations divided into functions with their own objectives. As Richard Dickinson and Kate Pickett show in Spirit Level, a value like equality, for example, is prized more highly in Norway than in the U.S.

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