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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. Special Operations Command UChicago University of Chicago USSOC Voltaire Western Union The Wall Street Journal Whirlpool Corporation'

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part One

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. Special Operations Command University of Chicago USSOC Western Union Whirlpool Corporation' His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […].

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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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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. Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present.

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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. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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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. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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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. airline industry in the early 1990s highlights this distinction. They operate with extreme cost and process efficiency, which enables them to enjoy good margins and profits even while charging low prices.

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