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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

That’s one reason I was interested to talk with Leo Tilman and General Charles Jacoby, who co-wrote a new book, Agility: How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption. and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. For those who haven’t read the book yet, what is agility? Northern Command.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

But the decentralization debate was different. Rogier knew Derek’s position—but he had gone to an executive training course on holacracy in Las Vegas and had come back so fired up that he was now pushing for self-managed teams at headquarters and complete decentralization at the country level.

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‘My Years with General Motors’, Fifty Years On

Harvard Business Review

For fans of management books, this month marks a big anniversary. It is harder, though, to pinpoint exactly what lessons today’s managers might take from what has been called “the best business book you’ll never read.” To appreciate Sloan’s book, consider the titanic achievement of his predecessor, Henry Ford.