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Proposing New Ideas Helps Men More Than Woman At Work

The Horizons Tracker

While we often focus primarily on the generation of new ideas, as Vijay Govindarajan explains in his “three boxes method”, it’s also important to stop doing things that are no longer sensible. Put a positive spin on it.”. The researchers examined both speaking up with new ideas and also things that should be stopped.

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REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere

Marshall Goldsmith

My good friend and Dartmouth Professor Vijay Govindarajan (VG) reveals a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (HBR Press, April 2012): Innovation flows uphill and its future lies in emerging markets. The launch of the book Reverse Innovation has been hugely successful.

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Your Leadership Mission Should Fit on a T-Shirt!

Marshall Goldsmith

It is to: Help successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in their behavior. For instance, Vijay Govindarajan, who does an excellent job of helping at the corporate strategy domain. So, most executive coaches are doing what I do, helping leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior. My mission is simple.

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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

There are a few very excellent coaches in the corporate strategy domain, for instance Vijay Govindarajan and Michael Porter. I’m in the 90%, and what we do is help leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior. Most though, perhaps as much as 90%, are behavioral coaches with backgrounds in psychology or organizational behavior.

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When Leadership Coaching Works (And When It Doesn't)

Marshall Goldsmith

A: In my work as an executive coach, I only get paid if my clients achieve a positive, lasting change in behavior - not as judged by themselves, but as determined by their key stakeholders. CK Prahalad or Vijay Govindarajan), most - including me - are not. Q: When does leadership coaching work? When is it a waste of time?

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

My mission is to help successful leaders achieve positive, long-term, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. We then get paid only after our coaching clients have achieved positive change in key leadership behaviors – and become more effective leaders – as determined by their key stakeholders.

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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 $300 House: The Challenge. The Financial Challenge. The Design Challenge. The Energy Challenge.