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Developing next-generation leaders

Brimstone Consulting

A leading health services organization identified leadership development as one of its biggest challenges. The organization had grown quickly through acquisitions which placed leaders in positions larger and broader than their leadership training and experience equipped them for. I’m incredibly grateful for your insight and coaching.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

The matrix is designed to bring forth the voices that need to influence key enterprise trade-off decisions (e.g., long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). 1 Networked, Scaled, and Agile. Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino.

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Steps to Upgrade Your Strategy

LSA Global

Technology disruption, the war for talent, inflation, and recessionary pressures are creating the perfect storm for many businesses. Individuals and teams must gain insights into what works and be rewarded for sharing know-how with the betterment of the entire enterprise in mind.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. The academic literature as well as our consulting experience suggest that the ability to prioritize is a key ingredient to an enterprise leadership team’s success.

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The Challenge of Activation

Kates Kesler

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. The business targets and processes they co-manage, and the nature of talent that staff these new roles, are all part of bringing global organization to life. The top executive teams in successful global companies spend time together, sharing the enterprise leadership role.