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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. Collaborative open strategic planning: A method and case study.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

PepsiCo is also a case study in the vertical health of the organization: getting to the right number of layers. Microsoft delivered enormous wins to shareholders for decades before losing momentum to smaller agile companies as well as the likes of Apple and Google. a) Agility. 2: Shed the Layers (vertical health).

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

Harvard Business

To give an example of just how hard it can be to prevent this from happening, let’s consider the case of Nokia. The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. The difficulty here is that this doesn’t happen overnight.

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