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Article: Mounting a World-Class Effort to Be No. 1; Harvard Professor Says Firms Striving to Be the Best Need 3 C's: Concepts, Competence and Connections
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- The Washington Post
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- October 8, 1995
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Yeow!
First we had to drive ourselves to be first in our kindergarten
classes. Then we needed to be top dog in grade school. And that was
just in preparation for a scramble to the top of the heap in high
school, college, grad school, law school, apprenticeship programs,
computer training, etc., etc., etc.
Apparently, that was just the easy stuff.
Now, according to Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss
Kanter, the bar has gotten a lot higher. To succeed in life,
companies, individuals and communities need to work together to be
the best on the globe.
Yes, that's right. No. 1 players on a planet with 5.6 billion
people.
In her new book, called "World Class," Kanter, former editor of ...