First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

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

Prahalad 93

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Drucker 93

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

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

Prahalad 75

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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. Corporate CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable. Don’t engage in over-the-top discounting that trains customers, both in B2C and B2B markets, to buy cleverly on price and price alone. The best cure I have found for these delusions is a cultural one.

Price 8

Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

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.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

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.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. Faced with a competitive challenge from Netflix, CEO John Antioco came up with what seems, even in retrospect, to be a viable plan. You need the right mix of cohesion and diversity in order to achieve both innovation and operational efficiency.

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 8