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Competitive Advantage from the Bottom of the Pyramid

LDRLB

The BoP markets are a hotbed for innovation and companies that are able to mold their business models to fit within this paradigm can truly alter traditional business models. Prahalad , the brilliant management guru. Instead, Prahalad introduces a new framework, the 4 As – Awareness, Access, Affordability and Availability.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

There are plenty of well-known examples throughout the course of history; Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great, Laurence Olivier mentored Anthony Hopkins and Freddy Laker mentored Richard Branson. A client in need of innovation? Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. Strategy.

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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. For example, if they have written books on a topic, read the books before you ask them questions. Be creative.

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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. Two examples: Let There Be Light. About the Author.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. In an age of awards overkill, it is tempting to see the ranking as just another example of hubris in the business world. Second, management matters.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.