Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Because “uncertainty can only be reduced by committed decisions and actions,” you can choose to create a “certainty of purpose and direction.”. Second, there are some of the most influential tools from the field of strategy and management. The Strategy Toolkit at the end of the book is not just another nice add-on.

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Strategy Books Balanced Scorecard Mauborgne 281

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License.

Company 140

Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

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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Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

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.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For example, GE has gone from despoiling the Hudson River to jumpstarting the electric car industry through its commitment to purchase tens of thousands of zero emission vehicles. But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do.

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

Strategy 13

Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 13