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Using M&A to Increase Your Capacity for Growth

Harvard Business

Companies should look beyond the typical goals of size, scale and efficiency – and instead seek to rebuild their capacity for growth. They are highly efficient at what they do, but struggle to do anything new. What needs to change? It starts with re-thinking the objectives for M&A and the post-merger period. ” Why?

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To energize and transform your organization, ask questions and seek input

Brimstone Consulting

Several years ago, I conducted an evaluation of a program that showed films to refugees in a large refugee camp in Kenya. When the COO asked what they were doing, the linemen said that they were organizing their routes for the day to make them more efficient. The COO was shocked they were doing this and not the system planners.

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How Winning Organizations Last 100 Years

Harvard Business

Most businesses focus on serving customers, owning resources, being efficient and growing — but the Centennials don’t. And they carefully manage leadership transitions, so nothing is lost along the way. Instead, they try to shape society, share experts, create accidents, and focus on getting better not bigger.

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