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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development. Refinement.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. How well does your business strategy support the fulfillment of your company’s purpose?

Banking 42
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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business

I’m told that at one point the management-through-presentation culture of the company was so extensive that they were actually investigated by 3M for potentially re-selling the huge volumes of acetates used in those days to make slides for overhead projectors! The difficulty here is that this doesn’t happen overnight.

Company 28
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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry.

Apparel 82
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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. The technology strategy focused on agency-driven investments and strict control over the internally developed technologies. Adapting to change.