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Competing for the Future
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Competing for the Future

by Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad
March 1996
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
10h 4m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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We have repeatedly used the term core competence to describe the capabilities that underlie leadership in a range of products or services. In this chapter we will argue that a key challenge in competing for the future is to preemptively build the competencies that provide gateways to tomorrow’s opportunities, as well as to find novel applications of current core competencies.

Any company that wants to capture a disproportionate ...

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