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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Great leaders dream of a better future – from business sustainability to growing future leaders, increasing speed to market, or operating with greater purpose. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development. Development.

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

Harvard Business

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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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. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. Our research suggests that, on average, more centralized decision making structures are more likely to pull poorly performing products from the market.

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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. Eliminate bureaucracy.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

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