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

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His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Apple Berkeley Booth School of Business Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville C.K.

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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. His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […]. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

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Beyond Core Competence

Harvard Business Review

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. And the ability to do that may become a new core competence.

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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence. The customer is the ultimate beneficiary of these enhanced core competencies—not the driver or determinant.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Link the New to the Old.

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Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How

Harvard Business Review

Do you know why you make the products or offer the services you do? They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. I call these types of insights core insights, a concept which I first introduced in my book, Innovation X. in a new way.

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How to Reward Your Stellar Team

Harvard Business Review

Ancona says that many companies include teamwork as a core competency in their leadership development models. At a meeting with Gary Hamel, just before the famed management thinker was about to give a speech referencing PfizerWorks at the World Business Forum, Jordan asked if he''d be willing to mention the team by name.

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