Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. Novel subtlety and nuance can be wonderful but my innovation heart belongs to obvious.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. People shopping for cell phone cases were natural customers for a wireless service provider. It stiffed Cellairis and the wireless providers whose services it resold. After nine months, AMP’d filed for bankruptcy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Hiring and grooming local talent in key markets makes plenty of sense, but as IESE Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat explains in McKinsey Quarterly, firms that rely so heavily on localization that they no longer groom expatriates are being shortsighted. "And The Wireless Industry's Growing Pains (Knowledge@Wharton).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

She proudly began to talk about how she had a prepaid wireless broadband card that allowed him to access education via the family mobile phone. There’s an important lesson in this for innovators seeking to create new growth among customer segments that don’t constitute the core of today’s markets: If you don’t go, you can’t know.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Recent corporate history is littered with successful established firms who failed to manage disruptive innovation even with full knowledge that it was coming. Unfortunately, however, customers for firms serving the mass market, by definition, have largely of middle-of-the-road needs. Kodak is a poster-child. It didn't work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Years of economic mismanagement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. This is not guesswork. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

The Mississippi-born former IBM salesman, FedEx COO, and CEO of AT&T Wireless and Netscape Communications argues that funny sayings, especially if they involve animals, stick with people in a way that PowerPoint strategy slides usually don’t. So, it’s not just the fighter, it’s the terrain that they’re on, the market they’re in.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or “churn” in marketing parlance, often involves offering incentives such as discounts to individuals identified as likely to defect. Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Project Loon is such a moonshot project, providing internet access to remote regions by equipping balloons with wireless capabilities. Many tech companies have innovation- and engineering-driven cultures typical of nimble, improvisatory start-ups. Allows each unit to deploy the right approach to strategy and execution.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. For example, when Huawei expanded their 3G market in Europe, they noticed that European carriers expected base stations to be more compact, easier to install, greener, and more energy efficient, while offering wider coverage.

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