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Stop Training Your Employees To Not Try

Joseph Lalonde

Prahalad wrote about in one of their books. Sometimes, you’ll see success. And, if they’re successful, their success brings something new to your organization. Worse, organizations often punish their employees for trying something new and failing. The authors tell the story of four monkeys placed into a room.

Training 319
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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Each chapter defines the objective, the context and the challenge—and then what success looks like and the pitfalls you might encounter. Third, there are tools that I have found valuable in my work with some of the most successful organisations in the world." Well thought out and helpful.

Strategy 281
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Go for It, Brett; Retiring Successfully Is Harder Than It Looks

Marshall Goldsmith

This was an extremely bad sign of the potential for Mr. Favre having a successful retirement. The fact is, after being a huge success in a career that has brought benefits like leadership, relationships, contribution, meaning and happiness, playing mediocre golf with a bunch of old men at the country club isn't really that great.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

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. Prahalad and Henry Mintzberg joined me as silent colleagues. One of my mentors was brilliantly creative, the other skillfully strategic.

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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.

Company 140
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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. We believe that employment is a first step in an individual’s path toward success… [A]nyone that comes to the front door of our bakery is given the chance to work, no questions asked.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

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.