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How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

The birds coordinate themselves with remarkable agility to find food and avoid attacks. Every organization today wants to achieve both alignment and autonomy. Over centuries, the military has developed an approach to managing “ the fog of war.” It’s a new way of thinking about management.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. Meanwhile, the organization’s mission aspirations grew bolder.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. Most of these benefits have been achieved.

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