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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. Special Operations Command UChicago University of Chicago USSOC Voltaire Western Union The Wall Street Journal Whirlpool Corporation'

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part One

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. Special Operations Command University of Chicago USSOC Western Union Whirlpool Corporation' His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […].

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

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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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. He was right.

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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. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. He was right.

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A New Framework for Customer Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

The approach echoes Ted Levitt''s famous comment about selling ¼ inch holes rather than ¼ inch electric drills, and advocates a mindset shift away from selling products to "doing jobs" that solve customers'' problems. We agreed to work on a new kind of segmentation based the combinations of jobs that customers need to get done.