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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Global Debt Registry (MHR). Corporate Executives. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. Prahalad's brilliance and persuasiveness certainly had something to do with it. It's practically the law of the land.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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A New Framework for Customer Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

In one presentation, we were exuberant about Big Data and Little Data, and in the next, speaking what seemed to be 1960''s voodoo psychographic language. In Clay Christensen''s words, customers "hire" products or other solutions because they have a specific job to fulfil, not because they belong to a certain segment.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

That only makes sense if you are operating in a state of equilibrium—which might have been close enough to the truth in some sepia-toned time. Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. To maximize this, a company should prioritize the innovation that leads to the greatest value.

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