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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. The multitude of projects drove the company in numerous directions at the same time.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business

How talent management is changing. Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., Then practice and apply new behavior back on the job while instituting routines for manager, peer and coach feedback.