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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Successful cross-sector partnerships contain diverse but complementary organizations that collectively contribute to the creation of long-term value. Apollo Hospitals focuses on medical service delivery through a geographically diverse network of CSCs. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The world's eighth-largest wind turbine manufacturer may be headquartered in Pune, India, but its main R&D centers are located in the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, nations that actively promote wind energy and boast a huge talent pool. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. and the U.K.

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The $2,000 Car

Harvard Business Review

Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich.

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7 CEO Success Tips – How To Be A Better Leader

N2Growth Blog

2) WHAT are you applying your energy and resources against? They must be willing to decentralize their decision?making Cardinal Rules offer a diverse and engaged treatment to the overall process that leads to success. 3) WHERE are you going? This is known as the compass heading and the target [Zulu] time.

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How Smart CEOs Use Social Tools to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

His goal, like many of the leaders we interviewed, is to establish a presence that reliably represents who he is and what he stands for so that in the decentralized world of autonomous teams — that his company’s software has helped create — people can formulate strategy, make decisions and deal with ambiguity.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business Review

Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. An increase in the dynamism and diversity of business environments means that people must adapt their skills more quickly. Yet such ecosystems are not just the purview of web companies.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

It appears Toyota’s decentralized structure, which served it well for many years, turned into a liability as the company continued to grow and dominate worldwide markets. But since your ability to execute well and consistently is the very fabric of success, I can think of no better place to focus your time and energy. What went wrong?