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3 Ways to Break Out of a Zero-Sum Game of Growth with Your Competitors

Leading Blog

2: Create new technology enabled business models: GE’s Jeff Immelt and Dartmouth Professor Govindarajan are back, with lessons on digital transformation. This article also has good advice to leaders not to talk themselves out of the hard work of digital transformation.

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Your Leadership Mission Should Fit on a T-Shirt!

Marshall Goldsmith

For instance, Vijay Govindarajan, who does an excellent job of helping at the corporate strategy domain. Peter Drucker’s advice that a mission should fit on a T-shirt has also helped me focus on what not to do as it applies to my mission statement. There are a few– and I would like to underline, very few– strategic coaches.

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When Leadership Coaching Works (And When It Doesn't)

Marshall Goldsmith

CK Prahalad or Vijay Govindarajan), most - including me - are not. Advice that is never implemented will not do much good. Marshall My newest book, MOJO , is a New York Times (advice), Wall Street Journal (business), USAToday (money) and Publisher's Weekly (non-fiction) best seller. Although some are experts at strategy (e.g.

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The Three-Box Approach to Business Model Reinvention: Putting the Idea into Practice

Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan's and Chris Trimble's article, " The CEO's Role in Business Model Reinvention ," appeared in our January-February 2011 issue. To give readers a sense of how to apply the approach to their own setting, we interviewed Vijay Govindarajan and Brian Goldner, the CEO of Hasbro, Inc. Box 2: Selectively forget the past.

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Extreme Negotiations: Putting the Idea into Practice

Harvard Business Review

In this edited conversation , the authors provide practical advice, as well as tools and frameworks, to help you better prepare for and participate in your next negotiation. The Idea in Practice is a new type of content for HBR. We'd love to hear what you think in the comments below.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These 11 posts all hit a common nerve and went viral; it's no surprise that most of them contain advice about how to succeed and be happy at work. by Vijay Govindarajan. Important advice for smart people (and their parents and managers). Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing. by Rob Wheeler. The Trouble with Bright Kids.

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31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year

Harvard Business Review

Let patterns guide and actions decide; remember Scott Cook's advice that "for every failure we had we had spreadsheets that looked awesome.". Academics like Clayton Christensen and Vijay Govindarajan, leading-edge innovative companies like Procter & Gamble and Cisco Systems, and thoughtful writers like Michael Mauboussin and Bill James.