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A. G. Lafley

Type: Person

Name: A. G. Lafley

Title: President, chief executive officer, and chairman

Organization: Procter & Gamble

Date of Birth: 13/06/1947

Place of Birth: Keene, New Hampshire

Nationality: United States

Fact Sheet: Biography for A. G. Lafley

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Procter & Gamble

How to Have Better Conversations

START IT UP|Procter & Gamble's former CEO offers simple but useful tips for better discussions at work and elsewhere.clippedConnect with Evernote:Please Login to Connect Your Account with EvernoteA great deal of our lives is spent talking to people. The ... [Published inc.com - May 17 2013]

Entities: A. G. Lafley, Evernote, Procter & Gamble, Advocate

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Is Lean Playing to Win? Part 1 of 2

0 comments | 4 readsIn a recent LinkedIn thread, What do we have to do to have Lean survive a leadership change?, I found most of the comments following the age old line that the reason for Lean failures can always be summed up in one word, leadership. ... [Published CRM Guru - May 05 2013]

Entities: LEAN Thinking, Leadership, A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin, Marketplace

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

What The Most Successful Leaders Know About Creating An Inventive Culture: A Case Study

A.G. Lafley, the former chairman and CEO of P&G, is a real one. He took a proverbial, slumbering consumer products giant and turned it into a company that delivered $100 million worth of new products to market, quarter after quarter after quarter.Many ... [Published Forbes.com - May 01 2013]

Entities: A. G. Lafley, Research & Development, Procter & Gamble, Invention

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

A Framework For Success

After a long time, I have read a book that has engaged me from start to finish — especially a book on strategy. No jargon, no lecturing, no macro level truisms — just plain, down-to-earth learnings with very workable suggestions. This is what a successful ... [Published Outlookbusiness.com - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Framework, A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Steve Jobs

Are you a Vitamin or a Painkiller?

A recent inc.com article , which challenged businesses to determine if their offering is a vitamin or a painkiller, caught my attention. In short:Your product is a vitamin if your product creates a stronger future state over time, and Your product is ... [Published Business Insider - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Vitamin, anodyne, Customer Experience, Steve Jobs

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Henry Ford

The Four Best (and Worst) Uses of Market Research

Experience and research suggest that many CEOs look for growth in the wrong places and in the wrong ways, thereby missing opportunities and leaving them for the newbies. In a sense, though, this is good news: success lies in doing things differently, ... [Published Nielsen Australia - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Invention, Henry Ford, Procter & Gamble

First reported Apr 08 2013 - Updated Apr 08 2013 - 1 reports

A. G. Lafley

A Playbook for Winning

Are you just playing—or playing to win?As CEO of Procter & Gamble, A.G. Lafley played to win. In close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, Lafley created a playbook for developing and executing winning ... [Published Harvard Business Review - Apr 08 2013]

Entities: A. G. Lafley, Procter & Gamble, Roger Martin

First reported Mar 13 2013 - Updated Mar 14 2013 - 1 reports

The Best Companies Combine Marketing and Strategy

My dear friend AG Lafley and I have written a book called Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works and we are gratified by all of the positive reviews — The Economist, the Financial Times, Fortune, etc. Even on Amazon.com, the reviews have been ... [Published HBR Blog Network - Mar 13 2013]

Entities: Business Strategy, A. G. Lafley, Military/Armed Forces

First reported Mar 04 2013 - Updated Mar 04 2013 - 1 reports

New Books from HBR Press for March

Check out these new, and forthcoming books from HBR Press: Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It's hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices ... [Published HBR Blog Network - Mar 04 2013]

Entities: Invention, A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin

First reported Feb 28 2013 - Updated Feb 28 2013 - 1 reports

The Op-Ed: How To Speed Up Clinical Trials

The ongoing handwringing over ways to improve clinical trial productivity can reveal any number of issues that call for improvement. One key area, however, may be the interplay between drugmakers and their contract research organizations which, of ... [Published Pharmalot - Feb 28 2013]

Entities: Clinical trials, Research & Development, A. G. Lafley, Procter & Gamble

First reported Feb 07 2013 - Updated Feb 07 2013 - 1 reports

How P&G Turned Acquisition into a Core Competency

A.G. Lafley , former chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble, led the company to think about fragrances in a new way and grew a successful new product line. He is the coauthor of the HBR Press book Playing to Win . ... [Published HBR Blog Network - Feb 07 2013]

Entities: Procter & Gamble, Acquisition, A. G. Lafley

First reported Jan 07 2013 - Updated Jan 07 2013 - 1 reports

The 5 essential questions at the heart of any winning strategy – Part 1

For far too many leaders, strategy is a struggle. Despite all the different strategy tools available (or perhaps because of them), strategy can seem mysterious and scary, with huge rewards for success, disastrous implications for failure and many unknown ... [Published Financial Post | Business » Executive - Jan 07 2013]

Entities: Procter & Gamble, Rotman School of Management, A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin

Quotes

Advocating for your ideas may help you get your way, but blending assertiveness and inquiry is guaranteed to get people on your side. The reason: "inquiry leads the other person to genuinely reflect and hear your advocacy rather than ignoring it and making their own advocacy in response" says Lafley

How to Have Better Conversations [Published inc.com - May 17 2013]

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A Playbook for Winning [Published Harvard Business Review - Apr 08 2013]
The GOP Needs a New Product, Not a New Brand [Published HBR Blog Network - Mar 25 2013]
A.G. Lafley Defines Effective Business Strategy [Published Forbes - YouTube Channel - Mar 22 2013]
The Best Companies Combine Marketing and Strategy [Published HBR Blog Network - Mar 13 2013]
New Books from HBR Press for March [Published HBR Blog Network - Mar 04 2013]
The Op-Ed: How To Speed Up Clinical Trials [Published Pharmalot - Feb 28 2013]
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Preview: How P&G Turned Acquisition into a Core... [Published Harvard Business - YouTube - Feb 07 2013]
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Blogs

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The GOP Needs a New Product, Not a New Brand [Published HBR Blog Network - Mar 25 2013] Since coming up short in the November elections, its fifth popular-vote loss in the last six presidential elections, the Republican Party has been engaged in an anguished discussion of what went wrong, and what needs to change. The latest example ...
The Best Companies Combine Marketing and Strategy [Published HBR Blog Network - Mar 13 2013] My dear friend AG Lafley and I have written a book called Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works and we are gratified by all of the positive reviews — The Economist, the Financial Times, Fortune, etc. Even on Amazon.com, the reviews have been ...
New Books from HBR Press for March [Published HBR Blog Network - Mar 04 2013] Check out these new, and forthcoming books from HBR Press: Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It's hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices ...
The Op-Ed: How To Speed Up Clinical Trials [Published Pharmalot - Feb 28 2013] The ongoing handwringing over ways to improve clinical trial productivity can reveal any number of issues that call for improvement. One key area, however, may be the interplay between drugmakers and their contract research organizations which, of ...
How P&G Turned Acquisition into a Core Competency [Published HBR Blog Network - Feb 07 2013] A.G. Lafley , former chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble, led the company to think about fragrances in a new way and grew a successful new product line. He is the coauthor of the HBR Press book Playing to Win . ...

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A.G. Lafley Defines Effective Business Strategy [Published Forbes - YouTube Channel - Mar 22 2013]
Preview: How P&G Turned Acquisition into a Core... [Published Harvard Business - YouTube - Feb 07 2013]