Leverage every opportunity when influencing change.

Change, culture, People
Leverage every opportunity when influencing change. I’ve found that many of the decisions in my life involving change have come from the heart.   Judy Wicks Aurora and Paladin were managing a business unit, Artemis Inc. Artemis Inc. is a hierarchical organization in its thinking; change did not come easily and the existing bureaucracy sustained itself. Changing this culture to meet the business goals was a need. Aurora, the CEO was more aggressive & impatient on this. She had a more direct approach while Paladin would work through and with the team approach. Both of them had ‘lead-from-the-front’ leadership style and recognized the need to develop strong second & third levels. Artemis Inc. was operating in a highly competitive technology market. To remain relevant and improve productivity levels; there was…
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Impressions// CK Prahalad: The mind… by Benedict Paramanand

Biography, Business, People
CK Prahalad is a management and leadership guru. CK is well known for there key concepts: Core Competence, co-creation of value, and profitability potential at the Bottom of Pyramid (BoP). "Ideas like Core Competence and Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid are synonyms for CK. That is why he became a legend." writes R. Gopalakrishnan, Director, Tata Sons Limited in the foreword of this book by Benedict. "Like Peter Drucker, CK was the bridge between the academic world and the real world." writes Jagadish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business, Emory University (U.S.A) There is a liberal dose of this in his book. The best parts of this book are Chapter 7: Distilling CK - A Critique of his published work by S. Manikutty, Adjunct Faculty, IIM, Bangalore & Faculty,…
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