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Stop Training Your Employees To Not Try

Joseph Lalonde

Prahalad wrote about in one of their books. When a team member takes a risk, reward them. Worse, organizations often punish their employees for trying something new and failing. And the employees don’t understand why they can’t attempt something new. This makes me think about the monkey experiment Gary Hamel and C.K.

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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. 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. Human Resources.

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Book Review: Multipliers

LDRLB

Don’t be fooled by the title, the authors do NOT offer research support for their claim that leadership can make folks smarter. It isn’t just how intelligent your team members are; it is how much of that intelligence you can draw out and put to use. (p. Prahalad, who I consider a giant among management thinkers.

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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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If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. Instead, Martha and her team came up with this strategic intent: "To get everyone in the U.K. This clarity empowered the team to know exactly what they were trying to do and what they were not trying to do. We need — using the language from Gary Hamel and C.K.

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If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. Instead, Martha and her team came up with this strategic intent: "To get everyone in the U.K. This clarity empowered the team to know exactly what they were trying to do and what they were not trying to do. We need — using the language from Gary Hamel and C.K.

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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. There, they will find that they are confronted with local majorities opposed to the global leadership view and, in time, even leaders will conform. Gary Hamel and C.K.