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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. How Ethical Are You?

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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. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K.

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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. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K.