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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

We know the PC market is in a free fall and we know the financials of the company ad nauseum, but what about the brainpower, ingenuity and creativity that is needed to steer this behemoth in the right direction?

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

In his 2006 survey of U.S. In his 2006 survey of U.S. He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V. Day of Wharton who reignited interest in the concept.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. The result is that large firms are gaining market share.