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Possibility Maximizer: Fast Company's 30 Second MBA

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License. .  This week I've got a unique and excellent resource from Fast Company that I would like to point you to.  Enjoy!

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals.

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

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. Prahalad's brilliance and persuasiveness certainly had something to do with it. It's practically the law of the land.

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Seven Ways to Connect With Your Designer

Harvard Business Review

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. They typically possess considerable experience in this area and can be a valuable asset to managers. Today, designers and business leaders are working together more closely than ever.