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

Harvard Business

In one, a star researcher said that he was leaving as there was no space for creativity anymore, as the company squeezed budgets and eliminated roles without a clear ROI. The internal world comes to matter more than what is going on outside the boundaries of the company and it just sort of loses its edge.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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