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Organizational Health and Performance: Beyond Performance 2.0

Leading Blog

The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. Then ensure that performance initiatives are engineered to promote the necessary mindset and behavioral shifts. Health is about the how. Act : Generation of energy.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? They assembled numerous contemporary examples of core competence, including NEC's semiconductors, Canon's microelectronics, and Honda's small-engine design.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

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Provoking the Future

Harvard Business Review

It has also become a laboratory for reinventing some of the most intractable operating practices of "modern" management. Webinar Note: Join Gary Hamel for a free webinar focused on the best new ideas from the Management 2.0 The Newport, R.I.-based based company is a nimble competitor in a high-stakes and highly-structured industry.

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Can Charisma Be Taught?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, "perhaps only in Silicon Valley would a group of engineers think they could hack their way to charisma with a series of neuroscientific shortcuts." In Hamel''s view, every company should be like the internet: decentralized, non-bureaucratic, flexible, and empowering.

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The Libor Scandal and the Price of Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

Or is one more a pawn in a rigged game of self-destruction; a mark in a ponzi scheme; a dull-eyed pack animal to which the engines of extraction are yoked? Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Who's who, mechanism and operator, sovereign — and serf?

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

Despite our best efforts, most organizations operate disjointedly. A study of star engineers at Bell Labs found that the most accomplished ones worked in a close-knit group, but also frequently reached out to people outside of it. Gary Hamel and C.K. These are all synchronized systems.