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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. The soaring U.S.

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business

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. Firms might leave products on the market well past their prime. Killing products isn’t easy.

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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. In 2008 NASA awarded contracts to Space X and Orbital Sciences to transport cargo to the ISS. It invested more in external communication.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business

Does your organization have the “market power” to implement the scenario? Identify whether your organization has the ability, based on market size and/or influence, to get other parties to participate in a consortium. What transactional data will you have to provide contextual reputational data?