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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

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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It's Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement

Harvard Business Review

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. As innovation thinker Vijay Govindarajan says , "The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, [the more] it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.

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Can AI Tell Us When To Use AI And When Not To?

The Horizons Tracker

Task management. 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. Rather than a face-to-face consultation, for instance, they are done instead over telehealth platforms. Reinventing healthcare. .

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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

What’s missing from the managerial toolkit is a way for managers to allocate their—and their organization’s—time and attention and resources on a day-to-day basis across the competing demands of managing today’s requirements and tomorrow’s possibilities. Vijay Govindarajan. Excerpted from.

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The $300 House: The Corporate Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. In one of the projects, we t worked with Ashoka Change Leader Vishnu Swaminathan and his "Housing for All" project. Today, Stephanie A. Stephanie A.

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

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. But companies that follow this approach don't develop a capability to create new growth businesses. The answer we came to was a simple one.

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The $300 House: The Urban Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. This development plan can be scaled to build 3 million or 30 million units per year, if needed. The entire thing isn't unlike putting together giant Legos.

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