CK Prahalad Quotes

“The world respects accomplishment. If you don’t do what you are supposed to do don’t expect respect from what’s been done by your ancestors.CK”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Don’t follow best practices, instead go on and create the Next Practice.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“who”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“dominant logic, core competence, strategic intent, future of competition, bottom of the pyramid.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Humility in success and courage in failure are hallmarks of a good leader.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“CK told Gary that he was far more interested in making a difference than making a career.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“CK’s famous line was ‘you can break rules but don’t break obligations.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Intensity comes naturally to people who are highly goal-focussed and set to achieve their goals through a very high standard of integrity and meticulousness.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Ideal opportunity is a rare thing and people get old waiting for it.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“After every session with him, you come away with a lot of confidence, a lot of faith in yourself, a lot of energy. This has an indirect effect on your organization. He was not elitist. He didn’t talk you down. He is someone who puts you at ease and you soon start talking to him as his equal.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“We confuse rituals with principles, and focus on results, not goals.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Morality is an integral part of leadership.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“This demands that India must acquire enough economic strength, technological vitality and moral leadership. Just economic strength and technological maturity is not enough.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“The key insight was that when serving the BoP, the firm does not start from the cost to determine the price; rather it has to start from what price the BoP consumers are willing to pay and work backwards to the cost at which the firm has to produce.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“on the verge of doing useful things like preventing drivers from jumping the signal, jamming mobile phones if the driver wants to speak while driving, the engine refusing to start if the driver is drunk beyond a limit, and much more.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“You have to prove in India that you can do well by doing good.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Never think of resources as your strength or lack of it as weakness. If you are doing it intelligently, it’s not a problem’.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“You got to see where the value lies. You got to position yourself rightly and that can come to you only if you have deep domain knowledge.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“We have more than 50 percent global market share of all outsourcing, 70 percent IT-enabled service and one-third market share of business process outsourcing (BPO). We have a target $300 billion dollars for 2020. Som Mittal, Nasscom President”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Doing Well by Doing Good”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Prahalad challenges readers to re-evaluate their pre-conceived notions about the commercial opportunities in serving the relatively poor nations of the world. The Bottom of the Pyramid highlights the way to commercial success and societal improvement.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Governments are using this platform to transfer subsidies directly to the poor who do not have bank accounts. This is also helping cut down leakages significantly which have dogged the subsidy mechanism in poor countries.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“BoP markets also started to become extraordinary sources of innovation. For example, Safaricom offered mobile cash allowing poor Kenyans, who did not have access to banks, to transfer money from A to B by text messaging. By 2009, seven million consumers were involved in this. Filipino maids working in Singapore were sending money home through an SMS message. From simple money transfers, this technology is being extended for application in public health, education and even entertainment like video downloads for a few cents.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“The way the wireless cellular phone industry worked in India gave the idea a big booster shot.  For the first time in human history, four billion of the six billion people were connected.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“if you can succeed in India, you can succeed everywhere’.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Unilever Sustainable Living Plan’ (USLP) in 2010. USLP is Unilever’s ambitious initiative to “decouple our growth from our environmental impact, while at the same time increasing our positive social impact.” Its 2020 goal is to “improve health and well-being, reduce environmental impact and source 100% of our agricultural raw materials sustainably and enhance the livelihoods of people across our value chain.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Mr. Banga remembers this episode well. “We started the session. All the directors stood up and presented their individual business plans and then I handed the floor to CK. It’s amazing how quickly he got all the wives into the discussion and within 10 minutes there were a couple of home truths on the table.” The wives were brutally honest. They said Unilever’s product quality did not deserve the price premium. Executives got to see how bitter home truths really are.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“Banga was taken aback when CK persuaded him to invite the wives of the members attending the company’s annual strategy conference.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“In 2014, some 60,000 women entrepreneurs cover a population of a hundred million deep in rural India where there is poor road and media connectivity. These women doubled their household income in no time. Women started to gain social respectability and for Unilever it was competitive advantage in distribution. “What a tremendous win-win he helped us create.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy

“entrepreneurship was the cure to many social and economic problems in society.”
― Benedict Paramanand, CK Prahalad: The Mind of the Futurist - Rare Insights on Life, Leadership & Strategy