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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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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business

Killing products isn’t easy. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. They are focused on a narrow set of products under their purview. Know the big picture.

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

Harvard Business

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

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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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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. Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

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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. Adapting to change.