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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

However, an inclusive approach has some potential drawbacks to address rather than ignore, such as bias, agility, and communication effectiveness. Strategic Planning & Thinking Barrier #2: Agility Leaders need to pay attention to time and effort when being inclusive. Collaborative open strategic planning: A method and case study.

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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

In our five-year study of global handset makers , we found that most firms pull products when they turn out to be obvious disasters such as the Note 7. Managers would be well advised to streamline their product withdrawal decisions if speed and agility is the name of their game.

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

Harvard Business

By 2050, more than half of the world’s passenger cars are likely to be electric vehicles, according to the Morgan Stanley study. Generally cheaper oil is certain to have at least one short-term impact: It will compete with and potentially slow down the world’s expected transition to renewable, clean energy.

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

Harvard Business

The voluminous case studies and articles about the firm would fill entire file cabinets in the typical business school storage area. 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. The difficulty here is that this doesn’t happen overnight.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry. Let’s look at each of the five as they played out in our study companies.

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