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Are You Driving Too Much Change, Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

She's outlined a long-term recovery strategy but the congealing critical consensus is that she's simply not moving fast enough. GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. That's a mug's game.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In retrospect, not very much.

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

Business strategies are lofty, typically long-term oriented, and often aspirational. When faced with an organization design challenge, many managers rush to grab a cocktail napkin—long the instrument of choice for reorganizing—and sketch out a high-level diagram of boxes and reporting relationships.

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