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Stop Selling And Start Leading

Eric Jacobson

For instance, while buyers most want to talk about : What my company is trying to achieve with the purchase The reasons my company needs to make the purchase My company’s overall goals … sellers most want to talk about : Pricing How the product/service works (a product demo) So, if you sell, you need to read this book.

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Demonstrating the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Marshall Goldsmith

Great entrepreneurs provide products and services that are better or different than what everyone else is doing. o Pay the price It is possible that you may just get lucky and become incredibly successful without having to work very hard. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14.

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The Fine Line Between When Low Prices Work and When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Winning with low prices is not merely a game of math in which you stay one notch below the competition; it is far more a game of culture and attitude. It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable. The groundbreaking price war in the U.S. Don’t fight them.

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Why Entrepreneurs Will Beat Multinationals to the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. On the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication, Professor Prahalad was interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton. But this approach seldom works.

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

Harvard Business Review

If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor — the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid — you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low profit margins, and high sales volumes. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S. It was laid down by C.K.

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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. That means that the poor are used to getting a highly personalized interface at an acceptable price point with very low training requirements. The same is true for personal care products and small electronics.

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Beyond Core Competence

Harvard Business Review

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. Prahalad and Gary Hamel's HBR classic Core Competence of the Corporation made popular the notion that knowing and mastering core business factors can be leveraged across products and markets.