Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. A recent OECD study projected that spending by Asian middle class consumers will have grown from $4.9

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Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Kudos to Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar for taking a moment to reflect on Affordable Housing Institute founder David Smith's observation that markets alone will never successfully house any nation's poorest people. Our experience shows that when people take control of their effort against well defined goals, innovation happens.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Looking beyond Japan, iconic six sigma companies in the United States, such as Motorola and GE, have struggled in recent years to be innovation leaders. 3M, which invested heavily in continuous improvement, had to loosen its sigma methodology in order to increase the flow of innovation. So should we abandon continuous improvement?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. What reverse innovation lessons might be learned by the participants in such a project?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The researchers have developed a machine learning system to assess a task and identify whether it’s one that would be best performed by a human expert or technology. Task management. Rather than a face-to-face consultation, for instance, they are done instead over telehealth platforms. Reinventing healthcare. . around its introduction.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. The company's core control mechanisms — the means by which it decides how to allocate resources, start and stop projects, and so on — were organized to do one thing: minimize mistakes. That's just what my life is like.

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