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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.

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Maximizing Agility and Leverage in the Global Organization

Kates Kesler

In foods, beverages, health, beauty, and apparel local variations really do matter. Enterprise leadership has to make choices across investment possibilities. New metrics and incentives may be required to make collaboration rational for local managers. Three enablers are critical, and often overlooked.

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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. Certainly, this increase will clearly benefit your external metrics like customer satisfaction scores. And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. BTS GROUP KEY STATS. BTS Group Website: www.bts.com.

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Rewarded vs. Unrewarded Complexity in Organizations

Kates Kesler

The powerful Walmart business units inside P&G, Unilever, and other consumer brand companies create enormous complexity challenges for the leadership of these companies, but Walmart, the customer, is well served by this single point of interface. This is a value-creating form of tension.

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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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