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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

However, an inclusive approach has some potential drawbacks to address rather than ignore, such as bias, agility, and communication effectiveness. Strategic Planning & Thinking Barrier #2: Agility Leaders need to pay attention to time and effort when being inclusive. References: Amrollahi, A., & & Rowlands, B.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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Simple Ethics Rules for Better Risk Management

Harvard Business

Remember the example of Citibank from the 2008 housing crash – Kellogg professor Adam Waytz found that leaders in New York were both physically and psychologically distant from whistleblowers in Missouri and Texas. Firms should not embrace ethical leadership or risk agility out of fear of failure or mere compliance.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

Like many leading international banks in recent years, Barclays has been subjected to strong criticism of its culture, governance, and risky behavior that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. In 2008, however, RBS failed spectacularly and was nationalized by the UK government to prevent its collapse.

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business

For example, right after Sanja Jha was appointed head of Motorola’s mobile devices unit in 2008, he immediately took control of the portfolio, cutting the firm’s entire Symbian product line and focusing the firm on fewer products and the Android platform. Here centralization plays a role too, as our research points out.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

As we have seen in other industries, to make the most of the new opportunities that lie ahead, oil companies will increasingly need to morph into agile organizations that can pivot to offset and even capitalize on disruptive new shifts. No one will be able to afford to stand still.

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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business

And I wasn’t the only one concerned about the company’s direction – in 2008 my colleagues Yves Doz and Mikko Kosonen wrote about the “rollercoaster” that was strategy at Nokia for many years, just before the Apple phenomenon decimated the company’s handset business.

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