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Maximizing Agility and Leverage in the Global Organization

Kates Kesler

Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. In foods, beverages, health, beauty, and apparel local variations really do matter. These four roles serve as the basis for differentiating responsibilities between the global center and the regional operating units. The global/local tension.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. Of course I have. But it doesn’t help.

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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. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, called McCord and Hasting’s presentation the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley. Adapted from.

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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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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance.