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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter. Understand the "P-Cycle."

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June 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Hamel and Zanini’s book Humanocracy shows the power of paradox as part of organization culture. Joel summarizes: “ Although you may be a star employee, completing projects correctly and meeting deadlines, you may be missing out on getting noticed. How can you have both freedom and control?

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Is Your Company Fit for the Future (and for Human Beings)?

Harvard Business Review

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. Explore the fringe. The future doesn't happen in the corner office or the conference room.

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business Review

This scenario is characterized by many divergent projects, fragmented activities that have little in common with the initial strategic plan, and projects that do not fit together. The company had expanded into too many different and overly complex projects, which essentially created high levels of strategic stress.

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How CIOs Can Change the Game

Harvard Business Review

It was an enlightening conversation with business strategy guru Gary Hamel , Newport News Shipbuilding''s CIO Leni Kaufman , and Walgreens'' CIO Tim Theriault, with HBR editor Angelia Herrin moderating. asked Gary Hamel. Well, don''t talk IT. Talk business. So your reliance on talent management is critically important.".

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. In helping her daughter with a school project, she came up with an idea for using the company's bingo algorithm created for its casino clients to create a web-based educational tool. The Newport, R.I.-based

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management. and Canada and more than 7 million vehicles a year traverse the Ambassador bridge, according to the Public Border Operators Assn. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S.

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