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Are You Giving Up Power?

Harvard Business Review

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. These allow you to direct activities and allocate resources — and by doing so, control other people.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

As BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has said, “One reason for investors’ short-term horizons is that companies have not sufficiently educated them about the ecosystems they are operating in, what their competitive threats are and how technology and other innovations are impacting their businesses.” Cut layers.

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Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business Review

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. The average span of control in these and other vanguard organizations is more than double the U.S. More people are working in big, bureaucratic organizations than ever before.

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