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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

A growing percentage of IBM’s business, for example, now involves customized solutions incorporating non-IBM products and services. These new challenges include: Moving from a more hierarchical organization toward a more “networkedorganization. Making complex, multi-business deals.

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How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

For example, in the U.S., ” Good decision principles help people make everyday decisions in diverse settings. It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations. In terms of doctrine they are the “principles [that] guide actions in support of objectives.”

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Women on Boards: Another Year, Another Disappointment

Harvard Business Review

And we have also seen a vast amount of enterprise and energy brought to bear at the individual level through education and networking organizations, many of which are designed for and focus solely on women. of the gender composition on boards)—to increase women’s representation on boards. children for women vs. 2.7 Simultaneous Action.