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Possibility Maximizer: Fast Company's 30 Second MBA

Sales Wolf Blog

Department of Labor Home Page Tom Peters, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Change Guru TUTs Adventurers Club: Explore the power of thought & creative visualization to manifest dreams! The Secret - The Law of Getting What You Want The U.S. I am also very impressed with the collection of guests that this resource recruits.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Black Enterprise Magazine ‘Top 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America’ and ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Corporate America’. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Entrepreneurs.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Link the New to the Old. How Ethical Are You?

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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? Incidentally, this holds true even for a quasi-Web 2.0

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Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How

Harvard Business Review

So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? After the economy-focused first generation car proved the viability of the technology, Toyota had a core insight for the second generation car that cracked this conundrum. in a new way.

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Design Lessons from the Consumer at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Best Buy's Buyback program allows consumers to sell back their gadgets at a guaranteed price when they upgrade to a newer technology. Engaging with the BOP should not be a debate about the social obligation of the firm.

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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. Power trickles down. It misallocates power, since promotions often go to the most politically astute rather than to the most prescient or productive. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. Tasks are assigned.