Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

They are looking for the "right answers" - similar to the ones in engineering school. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. Many of the MBAs who report self-confidence issues are brilliant technicians. They often find the uncertainty and ambiguity of leading people very unsettling.

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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. This has made me think a lot about when coaching works - and when it doesn't. Although some are experts at strategy (e.g. I laughed and said, "Neither am I."

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Executive Coaching Prahalad Govindarajan Leadership 126

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Take Hamel and Prahalad's 1990 HBR article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which suggests that firms should identify some activity at which they already excel or could plausibly excel in the future, and make that the centerpiece of their strategy. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add?

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. A provocative—possibly apocryphal—story has the late C.K. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

The second generation Prius launched in 2004 and included premium technology and convenience features not normally associated with an "economy" car, such as a large dashboard LCD screen showing animations of the hybrid engine at work, and doors and an ignition that respond to a Bluetooth-equipped key.

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9