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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership. Others, such as ANZ, the Australian-based banking giant, have committed to adopting Agile at scale in less than a year, following some of the proven practices used by Spotify , the music streaming company.

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When "Creative Destruction" Destroys More than It Creates

Harvard Business Review

My colleagues and I at Bain & Company have been tracking this for forty years, and we have never seen companies losing their leadership positions as quickly as they are today. A list of the top 20 banks today contains only seven that were on the list a decade ago. A similar pattern hold for airlines. And for telecom.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. I’m thinking of HDFC Bank in India, Yahoo! She is a popular speaker and consults to senior leadership teams. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.