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

Harvard Business

I’m told that at one point the management-through-presentation culture of the company was so extensive that they were actually investigated by 3M for potentially re-selling the huge volumes of acetates used in those days to make slides for overhead projectors! Pragmatically, you can begin to do this without a whole lot of drama.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

The company grew through brilliant marketing, brand acquisitions, innovation and a decentralized geographic set of business units that helped create an entrepreneurial culture out in the markets. Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures. 4: Build Capabilities for the Future.

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