"Mr Prahalad’s core competence lay in big ideas rather than in dotting the “i”s and crossing the “t”s. He taught the world’s biggest companies to think of themselves anew, as a “portfolio of competencies” rather than as a “portfolio of businesses”.
- The Economist: The Guru At The Bottom Of The Pyramid
Too bad that most companies that adopted the words couldn't figure out how to implement the concepts - and of those who thought they could, the tool of choice was the bludgeon rather than the scalpel.
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...Or they thought their competency was to screw the customer.
I believe that they refer to that practice as "paying for the corporate jet".
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