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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Microsoft delivered enormous wins to shareholders for decades before losing momentum to smaller agile companies as well as the likes of Apple and Google. a) Agility. The Anchor Layer Construct at PepsiCo Can Remove Layers of Infrastructure and P&L Complexity. #3: 3: Kill Old P&L Units (Before they Kill Your Company).

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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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