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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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When the Invincible Become "Vincible"

Harvard Business Review

These were great companies with top-notch leadership, solid management processes, and access to the best and brightest strategists. Managers of successful firms tend to become complacent and even arrogant, assuming that past performance will continue and that the formulas that worked previously will work in the future.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. “To To manage” is “to control.”.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. Managers assess performance. To manage” is “to control.”. “To To manage” is “to control.”.