Can C.K. Prahalad Pass the Test?
Fast Company, August, 2001 by Jennifer Reingold
It's all the potato's fault. C.K. Prahalad might still be ensconced in his old life as revered management guru. He might still be teaching strategy to rapt MBAs and senior executives at the University of Michigan, still driving home each night to his lush 60-acre spread in suburban Ann Arbor. He might still be charging top dollar to advise companies -- paid richly to scare the bejesus out of powerful CEOs and, in the process, to help save them from ruin.
Instead, about five years ago, Prahalad read a book about the history of the potato and how its eventual spread transformed the world. Somehow, it made him think differently about the Internet. Just as international trade had fostered the potato's growth, the Internet would foster the global diffusion of individual power --...
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