In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. One of my mentors was brilliantly creative, the other skillfully strategic.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2018

It’ll teach you how to leverage the power of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to consistently make extraordinary sales. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy who wrote "We're entering a 'bottom-up' economy in which consumers will migrate to businesses that allow them to be participants in the process of creating what they want."

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Ramaswamy Open-book Prahalad Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. Once an individual starts… Greyston provides them with resources, personal development tools and training in professional skills to give them the greatest chance… Founded in 1982 by Bernie Glassman, Greyston now does $3.5 million in annual revenues.

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Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

These were great companies with top-notch leadership, solid management processes, and access to the best and brightest strategists. Prahalad used to recommend that a company's strategy should be developed by its thirty-year-old rookies instead of its veterans: The new guard will be more vested in the future than the past.

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Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 14