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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Demonstrating the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Marshall Goldsmith

o Be curious One of the greatest entrepreneurs I have ever known is Mr. G.M. o Find your own market niche In the same way that successful entrepreneurs provide innovative solutions to market opportunities, you can work to develop a special competency that differentiates you from everyone else. Be creative. Don't count on it.

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Products and Services that Address Deep Rooted Social Problems

Strategy Driven

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Do Customers Even Care about Your Core Competence?

Harvard Business Review

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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If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. He is now a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a class called "The Strategic Management of Nonprofits." On the other hand, we have quarterly objectives we pay attention to, but these shorter term tactics can lack inspiration.

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If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. He is now a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a class called "The Strategic Management of Nonprofits." On the other hand, we have quarterly objectives we pay attention to, but these shorter term tactics can lack inspiration.