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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. Human Resources. Dispute Resolution.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

KevinEikenberry Valueable Distinction >> Achievement vs. Success. steveroesler: 6 Important Marketing Trends to Watch in 2012 : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum. Gary Hamel: "Give someone monarch-like authority, and sooner or later there will be a royal screw-up." tomasacker: The paradox of success. "In

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

But we have also reached the outer edges of success through incremental improvements in quality. Strategy guru Gary Hamel wrote in the Harvard Business Review: “Corporations around the world are reaching the limits of incrementalism. Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, had just been released.

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The Power of Intent

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Gary Hamel referred to that in an award-winning HBR article Strategic Intent. As Hamel and Prahalad point out, a snapshot by itself yields little information about "whether the driver is out for a quiet Sunday drive or warming up for the Grand Prix.". Intent continues to be imperative for business success today.

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Bureaucracy Is Keeping Health Care from Getting Better

Harvard Business Review

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.” Kelvin Murray/Getty Images. What about solutions? ” I beg to differ. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. Luckily, strategists have studied the "what makes you special" question for some time.

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Three Questions to Jump-Start Your Company's Growth

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad laid out their view in the Harvard Business Review classic "Core Competence of the Corporation." While it's next to impossible to innovate faster than the market, it is possible to innovate better that the market. Luckily, strategists have studied the "what makes you special" question for some time.

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