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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Want to Thrive in Today’s High-Speed, Hypercompetitive Business World? Teach Your Management Team to Iterate.

Strategy Driven

performing entrants in any given market space. And managers who continually ask themselves and their teams what that next logical step to be taken is – and then take it, learn from it and repeat the process – are Iterating. Iteration is the way effective systems solve problems whose solutions are too complex to be predefined.

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Creative Strategies for Recruiting Talent During a Labor Shortage

Harvard Business Review

This article explores the concept of creative recruitment marketing efforts and its potential to address labor shortages by effectively reaching untapped talent pools, diversifying the talent pipeline, and aligning company values with purpose-driven candidates.

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Use Jugaad to Innovate Faster, Cheaper, Better

Harvard Business Review

The experience gave us some insights into a unique approach to innovation called jugaad , which entrepreneurs and enterprises are practicing in complex emerging markets like India. Jugaad innovators innovate better: Jugaad innovators recognize that consumers in emerging markets are low earners, but high yearners.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Ghosn recounts with humor how Dr. V.

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Seven Problems a Recovery Won't Fix

Harvard Business Review

Yet, mere recovery probably isn't enough to do much about growing financial insecurity, not just because gross output isn't concerned with how the pie is divided, but, more deeply, because fragility is a consequence of hypercompetitive, globalized, winner-take-all labor markets: in other words, it's a feature, not a bug.

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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.

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