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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. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. In the first, it centers on compliance to a pre-determined plan, in the latter on decentralized initiative taking and experimentation. Insight center. Planning myopia.

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Generations Around the Globe

Harvard Business Review

We focused on the generations in eight countries, including the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), some of the most important markets for talent over the next decade, as well as one country from the Middle East. In many cases, leadership demanded compliance, promoting risk-aversion and compliance, rather than respect.