First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Drucker 93

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 29, 2011

If he were only you, you wouldn't have any problems as his manager." In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. I just hate it when people need to be told what to do all of the time. I would have never done what he did in that meeting." "I I can see your point." I said, laughing. "If

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Prahalad Advice Learning-by-Doing Report 175

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 30, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Zook and featured at the Thinkers50 website, an organization whose definitive global ranking of management thinkers is published every two years. The 2009 winner was CK Prahalad.

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Prahalad Definition Globalization Article 75

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In some cases, brilliant technical experts should continue to be brilliant technical experts - and not feel obligated to become managers. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. They are looking for the "right answers" - similar to the ones in engineering school. Life is good.

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Prahalad Uncertainty CEO Leadership 127

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Your successor is going to manage your organization in the future - not you. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. It can be very hard to watch your successor make decisions that are different than yours. Respect your successor enough to let her choose her own key advisers.

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Prahalad Objective Survey Participative 127

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 2, 2013

Schein Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood Leading Firms: How Great Professional Service Firms Succeed & How […]. Bob''s blog entries "C.K.

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Ulrich Schein Prahalad Blog 75

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation. Bob''s blog entries Apple Brilliant Mistakes C.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Wilde 75

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! Prahalad, but you'll also get the thoughts and opinions of business professionals from successful start-ups, non-profits, and boutique enterprises that serve very specific niches in their respective markets.

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Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 10, 2011

A: The standard PR hype that goes with an acquisition sounds something like this, "We are so impressed with management and the direction of the company that we are acquiring that we have no interest in changing them. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. Life is good.

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Advice Prahalad PR Loyalty 105

Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 18, 2011

My friends, David Ulrich and Norm Smallwood have discussed how this same process can be applied to corporate managers who develop their own brands as leaders (BusinessWeek.com, 10/2/07). In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. Life is good.

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Ulrich Hersey Prahalad Mission Statement 134

LDRLB

MAY 2, 2010

Prahalad: The Responsible Manager.”. If you are not familiar with the carnival, it features some of the best articles by leadership bloggers from the month of May. LDRLB’s own “ Maxwell Fallacy ” was featured as well as friend and contributor Bret Simmons’ article “ C.K.

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Leadership Development Prahalad Development McCarthy 60

Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 1, 2011

But I hope that these ideas help you manage a thorny situation in the best way you can. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. I am not naive - I know that none of these suggestions will make your discussion a pleasant experience. Life is good.

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Prahalad How To Guidelines Class 105

LDRLB

JULY 13, 2010

This research would never be published in a leading peer-reviewed management or organizational psychology publication. Prahalad, who I consider a giant among management thinkers. This book probably went to press before Prahalad’s recent passing , but it is a fitting tribute to the brilliance of his influence.

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Review Books Prahalad Argyris 68

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 14, 2011

The Future of Management Gary Hamel with Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press (2007) With all due respect to today’s business bestsellers, most of the best books have already been written on the most important subjects.

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Hamel Books Management Review 75

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Case-in-point: the Bottom of the Pyramid theory, created by Indian-American researcher and author CK Prahalad. Prahalad argued that the world’s poorest people constituted the “bottom of the pyramid” (BoP) and presented a massive opportunity for the world’s wealthiest companies.

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Prahalad Products Productivity Marketing 28

Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2018

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 : This change has been taking shape for over a decade.

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Ramaswamy Open-book Prahalad Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

Prahalad or The Business Solution to Poverty by Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. Perhaps you’ve read the game-shifting books The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid , by C.K.

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Products Productivity Prahalad Open-book 50

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Solutions to Today’s Toughest Challenges from the Father of Modern Management Rick Wartzman McGraw-Hill (w3012) For every especially important question or an especially serious problem, Peter Drucker probably has the answer or solution. What Would Drucker Do Now? I recently read this book and What Would Steve Jobs Do?,

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Drucker Books Review Management 85

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. But, celebrating the very best new thinking in management matters for three reasons. Second, management matters. It's a fair question.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

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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Goal Prahalad Hamel CPA 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. Prahalad's brilliance and persuasiveness certainly had something to do with it. It's practically the law of the land.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

A fellow business leader complained the other day that although he had repeatedly sought feedback, his team had never told him what they really thought about his management style. Prahalad and Gary Hamel referred to that in an award-winning HBR article Strategic Intent. Two decades ago, the late C.K.

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Power McTaggart Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

These were great companies with top-notch leadership, solid management processes, and access to the best and brightest strategists. Managers of successful firms tend to become complacent and even arrogant, assuming that past performance will continue and that the formulas that worked previously will work in the future.

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Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

But just because your company is not fully evolved on the social change scale doesn't mean that there's nothing you (as a manager) can do. Prahalad called the bottom of the pyramid. We're years away from the point where doing good will be the accepted norm for successful businesses. How much energy are you consuming?

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

But we've found that leaders can create and sustain stronger business results if they understand — and manage — how employees approach their work every day. Prahalad's story of four monkeys sitting in a cage with a bunch of bananas hanging from the roof, accessible by a set of steps.

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Banking Prahalad Hamel Emotional Intelligence 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Prahalad , the guru of “ core competence ,” doing a strategy audit for a huge Indian conglomerate. The company, Prahalad tells the CEO, is simply too complex and diverse. A provocative—possibly apocryphal—story has the late C.K. It needs to shed a few divisions and find and focus on an integrative core competence.

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Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. He is now a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a class called "The Strategic Management of Nonprofits." On the other hand, we have quarterly objectives we pay attention to, but these shorter term tactics can lack inspiration.

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Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Prahalad in their HBR piece — Strategic Intent. He is now a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a class called "The Strategic Management of Nonprofits." On the other hand, we have quarterly objectives we pay attention to, but these shorter term tactics can lack inspiration.

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Mission Statement Document Prahalad Hamel 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

There is a danger that even after dealing with the crisis, managers will continue to give short shrift to their nonmarket and other fundamental corporate choices. Managers often think about strategy in narrow terms, engaging consultants to advise on such questions as divisional structures and the restructuring of reporting lines.

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Strategy Politics Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Architecture.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Managers assess performance. To find a cure, we will have to reinvent the architecture and ideology of modern management — two topics that aren’t often discussed in boardrooms or business schools. Architecture.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2013

In one presentation, we were exuberant about Big Data and Little Data, and in the next, speaking what seemed to be 1960''s voodoo psychographic language.

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Ramaswamy Levitt Prahalad Christensen 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Although this seems counterintuitive to corporate leaders charged with top line growth, they demonstrated an Innovation Management best practice called "Systemic Authenticity.". It is the world's first broad look for statistics underlying Innovation Management practices. In a study by Dr. Rajendra S. and What are our Core Competencies?

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Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Innovation 8

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Moving an idea forward is not just a matter of persuasion, but also of managing the connections between constituencies. Prahalad called this concept strategic intent. Managing people' Loose connections. Those close to us tend to have the same limited knowledge we do. In nature, the purpose of a system is hardwired.

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Organization Airlines Prahalad Hamel 9