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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

Most importantly, the implications and action steps became an ‘easy sell’ to my team. Human Resources. Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. A client in need of innovation?

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. World authority on project management.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

First, fixating on ROE fails to maximize the benefit of business to society because it measures value in terms of returns to only one stakeholder; second, it allocates human resources as if maximizing the efficiency of financial capital were critical to growth of social welfare. That value must be measured across all stakeholders.

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