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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

For me the lesson is this: Companies should complement a top-down push with as much bottom-up pull as possible to sustain momentum and avoid regression back to previous, inferior levels of performance. can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. Which camp is right?

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

Harvard Business Review

Negotiating the deal with the large global brand had been a challenge, but it increased business so much that Lance and his direct reports still felt as if they didn’t have enough hours in the day to get everything done. .” Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department.