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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? a) Agility. Learning from Big Companies.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. Across industries and countries, effective principles share three characteristics.

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We Need to Ask How We Can Make Economic Growth More Inclusive

Harvard Business

.” A top prizewinner for 2016 was a company not too far from MIT geographically — but in an industry that seems 100 years distant. It’s an apparel manufacturer called 99Degrees Custom. Industrial Revolution.” In a wonderful bit of symbolism, it is located in the historic Everett Mill in Lawrence, Mass.,

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