Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 22, 2016
There are a few very excellent coaches in the corporate strategy domain, for instance Vijay Govindarajan and Michael Porter. I can’t make a bad doctor a good doctor, a bad scientist a good scientist, or a bad engineer a good engineer. I’m in the 90%, and what we do is help leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior.
Coaching Tip
OCTOBER 4, 2013
They are built to be performance engines. A well-run performance engine is the master of many challenges. Innovation requires experimentation: the performance engine demands efficiency. Innovation sometimes fails; the performance engine struggles to forgive. So why is innovation execution so hard? Related articles.
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Marshall Goldsmith
MARCH 1, 2017
For instance, Vijay Govindarajan, who does an excellent job of helping at the corporate strategy domain. I can’t make a bad doctor a good doctor, a bad scientist a good scientist, or a bad engineer a good engineer. Today, most people who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior.
Marshall Goldsmith
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
CK Prahalad or Vijay Govindarajan), most - including me - are not. It won't turn bad doctors into good doctors or bad engineers into good engineers. The huge majority of professionals who call themselves executive coaches are actually behavioral coaches. Although some are experts at strategy (e.g.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 9, 2018
Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. In 2012, Dinesh Seemakurty, a bio-medical engineering student at University of Southern California was visiting India. He decided to leave Phillips to commit to the cause of fighting blindness — a risky decision for a 43-year old. Further Reading. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 20, 2020
Tuck Business School’s Vijay Govindarajan underlines how important our ability to forget is to innovation. The authors remind us that the economic disruption is likely to force the creative destruction that was so memorably chronicled by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter as being the engine of invention and change.
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. How can world-class engineering and design capabilities be utilized to solve the problem?
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