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Vijay Govindarajan on How to Reverse the “Curse of Dominant Logic”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Vijay Govindarajan for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently [.].

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The Future is Cancelled – Getting it Back

Leadership Freak

Vijay Govindarajan Living in reverse: Leaders who react to the past, without the […]. Leading Marks of leaders Personal Growth Success Taking others higher Vision Culture Leadership Leadership Development' If you want to become a leader in 2020, then it is not what you do in the year 2020. It’s what you do today.”

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Balancing the 3 Boxes

Leading Blog

Dartmouth professor Vijay Govindarajan writes, “As much as we might pay lip service to the fact that the future will differ dramatically from the past, we often behave as though it will be exactly the same.” Vijay Govindarajan has incorporated good principles for managing change into a framework he calls The Three Box Solution.

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How To Know When To Kill Off Corporate Activities

The Horizons Tracker

A central part of Vijay Govindarajan’s Three Box System is the middle box, which urges organizations to stop doing activities that are not producing results. Celebrate success – Too often, we only regard successes as projects that met their goals.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 6/24/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Tim Harford Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and BetterAdam Pash and Gina Trapani Negotiation Brian Tracy What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Managers as […].

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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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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Deep Work : Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport To thrive in the new economy—the current information economy—you need to master these two core abilities: 1. The Three-Box Solution : A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan Ultimately our future is not in linear—incremental—improvements.

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