Joseph Lalonde

JULY 14, 2022

Google allows its employees to spend 20% of their time working on pet projects. These pet projects are things the employee sees that could benefit Google. Prahalad wrote about in one of their books. When employees step out of their comfort zone and try something new, magical things happen. Most organizations are not like Google.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the short-term, positive projections for the future may motivate people to buy products, services or stocks. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. . - Optimism is balanced with realism. Optimism is a characteristic that is highly correlated with success in any field. Life is good.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES. Corporate CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. On the fifth anniversary of the book’s publication, Professor Prahalad was interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton. Whatever happened to them?)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Take Hamel and Prahalad's 1990 HBR article, "The Core Competence of the Corporation," which suggests that firms should identify some activity at which they already excel or could plausibly excel in the future, and make that the centerpiece of their strategy. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Understand the "P-Cycle."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. If you have the funds, or your company supports such programs, volunteer (with the help of an NGO) to live in a rural village for a week or allow your people to take mini-sabbaticals or secondments with NGOs to work on development projects. Encourage your people to get engaged with what C.K.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Add to this that their materials are far more sustainably produced than average meaning there is a net positive effect when their product is chosen over any average good, The company has even voluntarily lost money on a recycled clothing project, and made an immense investment in helping to create an organic cotton industry.

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