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Are You Clinging to the Wrong Strategy Style?

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A classical strategy (the one everyone learned in business school) works well for companies operating in predictable and immutable environments. Allowing teams within units to select their own styles gives you more flexibility in diverse or fast-changing environments but is generally more challenging to realize.

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Mars Incorporated: A Sweet Place to Work

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The company says it does 200 million consumer transactions a day. But despite that reach across civilization and into customer pockets, Mars is among the most secretive, insular, and little understood multinational companies around. For the first time, the company has made it onto Fortune's annual U.S.

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Gender Bias

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Only 16 percent of board positions are held by women and less than 4 percent of Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs.". The solution is to engage a male executive coach to help you understand how male executives think and engineer the best work experiences in more diverse environments. Why Gender Matters.

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Successful Leadership Is Not One Size Fits All

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Will their company become personality-driven and celebrity led? There's Steve Jobs , Warren Buffett , Bill Gates and many others, who may not be immediately involved in the day-to-day, but are certainly respected as drivers of the companies we associate with them. General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example.