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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

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His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Apple Berkeley Booth School of Business Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville C.K.

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part One

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […]. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

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Now, of course, increasingly technology is changing the way that information is distributed around organizations. One was that we thought companies should start to think, shall we say, as creatively about the ways they worked as they sometimes do about their products or services. So that was premise number one.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Link the New to the Old.

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Is Your Company Fit for the Future (and for Human Beings)?

Harvard Business Review

It's time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends. That's why Gary Hamel, management thinker and author, envisioned the MIX as a collaborative platform to both surface bold ideas and inspiring stories and to make progress on a set of make-or-break challenges.

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Beyond Core Competence

Harvard Business Review

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and C.K. Canon standardized copy machines and components to reduce costs and sold its offerings through office-product dealers, appealing to people who wanted to own the machines outright. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. JFK's intent produced many breakthrough technologies.

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