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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. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

But those same managers have come to recognize that the ROI for enabling this development is enormous. When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. I see this analogy in sports all the time. Hire to train.

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