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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

While Netflix relies heavily on leadership behavioral expectations, the automotive company relies on documented protocols owned and overseen by a person or committee. What is most important is thoughtful, intentional, and consistent management routines that make new leadership behaviors and outcomes possible.

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Quick Feedback: A Small Gesture with An Outsized Impact

Kates Kesler

As companies and strategies become more complex, leaders often need to start collaborating and integrating more to achieve the benefits of both agility and scale. For some leaders, the shift toward more vigorous forms of teamwork across boundaries is challenging and unnatural.

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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

They start with a discussion of Talent and Leadership. When we take a methodical approach to organization design, talent and leadership is the fourth milestone we address. Too many diversity efforts are conceived independently of a broader organization design effort.

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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

They start with a discussion of Talent and Leadership. When we take a methodical approach to organization design, talent and leadership is the fourth milestone we address. Too many diversity efforts are conceived independently of a broader organization design effort.

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