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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Non-profit CEOs. Former CEO, Covestor and CircleLending.

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Possibility Maximizer: Fast Company's 30 Second MBA

Sales Wolf Blog

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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When the Invincible Become "Vincible"

Harvard Business Review

Gary Wendt, CEO of GE Capital during its heyday, once said to me that the secret of his continuing success was the fear that his business could fall off a cliff at any moment. Peter Drucker once said that the biggest curse a company can have is twenty years of success. Without that fear, the cliff often appears more suddenly.

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

Harvard Business Review

It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable. When the combination of low prices and high profits does occur, it means companies have relied on seven decisive success factors: They have a low-price position from day one. They guarantee adequate and consistent quality.

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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. At the same time, design consultancies are increasingly looked at to spearhead the development process — from consumer research to design to prototyping, manufacturing and packaging.