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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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AT&T, Time Warner, and What Makes Vertical Mergers Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Combining the second-largest wireless carrier with the fourth-biggest entertainment company — one whose impressive assets include HBO and CNN — is likely to create an unassailable mobile-entertainment business. You gain market power, allowing you to price the asset higher than you could otherwise. Rejuvenating the core.

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Cisco's Flip Flop and (Mis)Managing the Obvious

Harvard Business Review

Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. How a blue chip technology innovator invests well over $700 million acquiring, developing, distributing and marketing a consumer digicam without a clear path connecting it to the most popular wireless medium around escapes me.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. Years of economic mismanagement.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.