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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. Corporate CEOs.

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The $300 House: The Performance Challenge

Harvard Business Review

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. The Marketing Challenge. Will this be tough? Will it require ingenuity as well as trial and error?

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The $300 House: The Sustainability 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. I was pleased to discover the $300 House challenge and I applaud the efforts of Vijay Govindarajan and Christian Sarkar. building code standards.

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It's Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement

Harvard Business Review

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. Sure it's important to inject discipline into product and service development, but not so much that it discourages creativity.

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Three Innovation Trends in Asia

Harvard Business Review

A recent OECD study projected that spending by Asian middle class consumers will have grown from $4.9 Multinationals are increasingly tasking their Asian outposts with developing regionally appropriate solutions that might "trickle up" to established markets. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation.

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Whatever Happened to the $300 House?

Harvard Business Review

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? Urban Housing Design Prototype.

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

The Horizons Tracker

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.”