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Board of Directors in 2024: New Strategies for Governance and Impact

N2Growth Blog

With the shift towards a more democratic work culture, management is evolving towards decentralization– emphasizing proactive and watchful guidance. One is the ongoing impact of digitalization, which changes how operations and regulatory compliance are conducted.

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Emphasizing compliance with a plan can, under stable conditions, accelerate fruition of a strategy. Businesses can be equally complex: a diversity initiative, for example, might include some compulsory training, but if this triggers sentiments of resistance and skepticism, it can be self-defeating. Insight center. Planning myopia.

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Generations Around the Globe

Harvard Business Review

In many cases, leadership demanded compliance, promoting risk-aversion and compliance, rather than respect. In China, post-Mao economic reforms de-collectivized the countryside, decentralized government, legalized private ownership, and created Special Economic Zones for capitalist investment.