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Are You Driving Too Much Change, Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

The congealing critical consensus is that Johnson's bold overhaul of the sagging American retailing icon went too far too fast. She's outlined a long-term recovery strategy but the congealing critical consensus is that she's simply not moving fast enough. Pity Meg Whitman. Lafley's "game-changing" stewardship.

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Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

Business-as-usual decision-making is busted: we strive for consensus; we don’t make tough calls; we aren’t transparent about how choices are made. Sprints encourage fast follow-up. By the end of the week, it had tested a prototype with this group and gotten enough positive feedback to move forward with the project.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.