by Gary Hamel , C.K. Prahalad
You’ve spent months streamlining operations, cutting costs, and hitting targets. But what if a competitor suddenly makes your entire industry irrelevant? Surviving today’s market doesn’t guarantee your place in tomorrow’s. In today’s 5-minute briefing of Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, we explore why “corporate anorexia” will kill your business and how shifting your focus to “core competencies” can help you write the rules for the next decade.
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Gary Hamel is an American management consultant and influential business thinker, widely recognized as a leading expert on business strategy. He is a faculty member at the London Business School and the co-author of the seminal work Competing for the Future. Hamel is renowned for originating the …
C.K. Prahalad was a world-renowned management theorist and professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He is recognized as a global authority for pioneering the concepts of 'core competence' and the 'Base of the Pyramid.' A two-time winner of the Thinkers50 ranking, his …
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