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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. 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? Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 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.

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Why Entrepreneurs Will Beat Multinationals to the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. On the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication, Professor Prahalad was interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of these companies now believe that "doing good" can be a powerful strategy for growing markets, stimulating innovation, motivating employees, tapping into new talent pools, and actually reducing costs. As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. , Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid.

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Patagonia's Provocative Black Friday Campaign

Harvard Business Review

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". This term comes from The World Database of Innovation, a collaboration between my company, Innovators International, and the CTOs of our member companies.

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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. Innovating our response to Covid-19. Practical solutions. Speeding the recovery. Globally competitive.

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Get Your Organization to Run in Sync

Harvard Business Review

It may be possible to create alignment among the leadership team, but that consensus will break down once the individual members return to their working groups. You need the right mix of cohesion and diversity in order to achieve both innovation and operational efficiency. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent.