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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. Yet change they must.

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Design for Conflict: Make Tension in the Matrix Work to Drive Business Results

Kates Kesler

Take Nike, marketing a core brand across a number of consumer categories with hundreds of footwear and apparel products all over the world. Senior leadership must learn to lead a more diverse, sometimes dissonant orchestra. Great talent may well overcome lousy organization design. Nike’s money-making matrix. The solution.

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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business

The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. So can designing new kinds of incentives, recognizing and rewarding the behaviors you want to encourage, and bringing in new, more diverse viewpoints and types of talent to the company.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. “Inside AT&T’s Talent Overhaul” 5.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled.

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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. He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Learning from Big Companies.

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How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business

For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. Adam Pretty/Getty Images. It just does not work.”