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Accelerate (XLR8)

Leading Blog

John Kotter provides that extra something we need in Accelerate (XLR8). He writes that management-driven hierarchies are “still absolutely necessary to make organizations work.” A second system that is organized as a network that works in cooperation with the existing hierarchy. Much more leadership, not just management.

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Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time

Harvard Business Review

Culture's all that invisible stuff that glues organizations together, as David Caldwell , my management professor at Santa Clara University, taught me many years ago. It includes things like norms of purpose, values, approach — the stuff that's hard to codify, hard to evaluate, and certainly hard to measure and therefore manage.