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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Similarly, CK Prahalad’s work on the bottom of the pyramid from the beginning of this century is still hugely influential. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. By applying Jacobs Suchard’s brands and businesses to HBR’s models, I was able to pin-point weaknesses and bring clarity to missing opportunities.

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Test Your Core Competencies

CO2

I also like Hamel and Prahalad three-question test for helping clients determine if one of their capabilities is actually a core competency : Does the capability make a disproportionate contribution to the ultimate customer value, and/or does it allow the company to deliver value to customers in an appreciably more efficient way?

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Possibility Maximizer: Fast Company's 30 Second MBA

Sales Wolf Blog

  Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility.   Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility.

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Products and Services that Address Deep Rooted Social Problems

Strategy Driven

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Seven Ways to Connect With Your Designer

Harvard Business Review

I've found shortcutting this process, or failing to explore how design can align with strategy, will only limit market and financial success. Achieving internal alignment early can not only help ensure a more successful offering when brought to market, but can help deliver said offering much more quickly. Increase profitability?