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8 Business-Travel Tips

Marshall Goldsmith

As much as we complain about the air transportation, I am amazed at how well the system works. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. In my thirty years of being a "road warrior", I have only missed on client meeting because of travel issues (a blizzard in Chicago). Life is good.

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Stop Selling And Start Leading

Eric Jacobson

Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy who wrote "We're entering a 'bottom-up' economy in which consumers will migrate to businesses that allow them to be participants in the process of creating what they want." Calvert : The good news is that the behaviors of leadership don't require any special knowledge, skills, systems or permissions.

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Measuring Up On the Job - and On the Homefront

Marshall Goldsmith

In many ways, part of being an effective leader is setting up systems to measure everything that matters. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. In business we spend a great deal of time measuring. We keep close tabs on sales, profits, rate of growth, and return on investment.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system. Previously Kevin was a leader in Electronic Data Systems and Ford. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic. Inaugural member of Thinkers50 India.

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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. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. But according to Prahalad and Hamel, firms should set unrealistic goals, not realistic goals.

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What Makes Social Entrepreneurs Different

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad's " bottom of the pyramid ," that began life as academic research. They also need to embed themselves much deeper into the cultural and social matrix as rule of law and contractual and regulatory systems are in many African countries often rudimentary.

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Patagonia's Provocative Black Friday Campaign

Harvard Business Review

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". This campaign is just further evidence that their mission is genuine — the first nuance of Systemic Authenticity. and What are our Core Competencies?