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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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LVMH, Hermès, and the Danger of Going 'A Little Bit Public'

Harvard Business Review

It is therefore not surprising to read press reports where Hermès family members have characterized the battle as the "rape of a beautiful woman" pitting their independence and value system against those of the interloper, Mr. Arnault. Or maybe going a little bit public is like getting a little bit pregnant — in other words, impossible.

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CEOs Should Activate Their Company's Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Triggering this process of collective engagement — Venkat Ramaswamy and I call it co-creation — is what is missing in the agenda of many CEOs today (to say nothing of our political leaders).

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Trust, Transparency and Value — How Google Is Working to Improve Online Advertising for Everyone - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE

Harvard Business Review

By Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President of Ads & Commerce, Google. We’ve significantly improved and retrained our machine learning systems. Digital advertising has played an important role in making the internet the free, open, vital place it is today.