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Possibility Maximizer: Fast Company's 30 Second MBA

Sales Wolf Blog

 Equally diverse are the faculty members who weigh in on these issues, which has included CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, leaders of small non-profits, entrepreneurial junkies, the occasional student, and everything in between. I am also very impressed with the collection of guests that this resource recruits.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. It is time now to announce the 100 Coaches.

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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? company like Apple.

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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. Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add?

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. In a recent talk at MIT, Infosys founder Narayana Murthy put it this way: "Technological innovation is all about reducing cost, reducing cycle time, making life more comfortable. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor?

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