Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

For the long-term viability of the organization, business transactions need to be "win-win." - The spinning is done to help the larger good - not just promote the person doing it. - In the short-term, positive projections for the future may motivate people to buy products, services or stocks. Yet optimists often over-commit.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Almost all of us have a few negative terms that are part of our self-definition. As long as we keep saying "That's just the way I am" to ourselves we increase the probabilities that "That's just the way I am always going to be." In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It wasn't too long ago that corporations were the villains — polluting the environment , exploiting workers , and consuming energy and other resources without concern for long term consequences to the planet. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. As Jason Saul argues in his new book Social Innovation Inc. ,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Ironically, the usability test in the BOP is often even higher precisely because the poor remained below the radar of multinational corporations for so long. The same is increasingly true in developed economies. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

A healthy low-price position has a long-term orientation built on consistency and sustainability, not quick results. They are procurement champions, tough but fair on supplier prices and terms. Low prices can never offset poor and inconsistent quality, at least not over a long period.

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Price Airlines Govindarajan Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. As long as control is exalted at the expense of freedom, our organizations will remain incompetent at their core. For too long we’ve been fiddling at the margins. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K.

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