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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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0503 | Julian Birkinshaw: Full Transcript

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but what is it that makes it so difficult to do all those four things and to be successful in those different elements? Now, of course, increasingly technology is changing the way that information is distributed around organizations. But tell me a little bit how that project got started and where is it going?

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Gary Hamel and C.K. By developing very different capabilities than Xerox's, Canon created a new recipe for success, and in the process short-circuited Xerox's ability to retaliate quickly. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. JFK's intent produced many breakthrough technologies.

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business Review

Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. In other words, their previous success meant that employees failed to challenge the once-successful strategy—that strategy was instead challenged by new market entrants.

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The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

Harvard Business Review

“First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. Companies need to learn that their successes should not distract them from innovation. pchyburrs/Getty Images. Idris Mootee, CEO of Idea Couture Inc., The best time to innovate is all the time.”

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Compete on Know-Why, Not Know-How

Harvard Business Review

Core insights are a complement to the familiar notion of core competencies , which were first advocated by Gary Hamel and the late C.K. But the success of the Prius wasn't a slam dunk. So how do you sell a more expensive economy car, especially one with an unfamiliar, unproven technology? in a new way.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

However, time and time again, statistics show that CIO and C-suite alignment drives financial success. Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it.

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