Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Don’t look now, but all of a sudden the topic of compassionate management is becoming trendy. More evidence of this trend comes from the Conscious Capitalism movement, whose membership includes companies like Southwest Airlines, Google, the Container Store, Whole Foods Market, and Nordstrom. At Wisdom 2.0,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

A*STAR Managing Director Low Teck Seng used that phrase to describe how Singapore appears on a map. Those are the two ingredients Shamik Dasgupta, the regional head of Medtronic's Cardiac Rhythm Management business unit, described as vital for driving disruptive growth in markets like India and China. The Red Dot."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The second enhancement that I would suggest to the Piketty narrative is to draw a distinction between the real economy and the capital markets. The capital markets, however, are not the real economy. The real economy is the one in which real companies, individuals and governments buy and sell real things for real prices.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. What is most telling is the restrictive and uncreative cultural climates created by CEOs and other senior managers. Senge's concept of learning is not just sitting in a classroom.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

However, instead of business adopting groundswell thinking, most businesses sought out the tools without the new attitude, seeing them more as a new, cheaper way to get to market rather than a better way to do business altogether. One of my favorite books of all-time has been The Fifth Discipline (1990) by Peter Senge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. ” In the field of marketing, our thinking is permeated by the mental model of mass communication. Unlearning is not about forgetting.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora. You always want to be the market leader. If you can’t say that, shrink the market segment until you can. Four Steps to Manage Your Crucial Conversations by Steve Knight, via @INSEADKnowledge. FT: How to deal with ‘toxic’ workers. SteveTobak.

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