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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. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. World authority on project management.

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The Power of Intent

Harvard Business Review

A fellow business leader complained the other day that although he had repeatedly sought feedback, his team had never told him what they really thought about his management style. My plate is full and my team knows that.". Prahalad and Gary Hamel referred to that in an award-winning HBR article Strategic Intent.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

For example, GE has gone from despoiling the Hudson River to jumpstarting the electric car industry through its commitment to purchase tens of thousands of zero emission vehicles. Similarly, Nike went from being vilified for its unfair treatment of workers to being applauded for setting industry standards for overseas working conditions.

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Patagonia's Provocative Black Friday Campaign

Harvard Business Review

Add to this that their materials are far more sustainably produced than average meaning there is a net positive effect when their product is chosen over any average good, The company has even voluntarily lost money on a recycled clothing project, and made an immense investment in helping to create an organic cotton industry.

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The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread Its Wings

The Horizons Tracker

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Under such conditions, entrepreneurs must be creators who build industries rather than disrupters who change them.”. Speeding the recovery.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. Just as electronic commerce would later sweep business, mass production came to one industry after another. But unlike websites, factories were capital intensive. As the late C.

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