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10 Ways to Slay Goliath

In the CEO Afterlife

As a 23 year-old Macleans Toothpaste Brand Manager in 1970, my colleagues and I competed against powerhouses P&G, Colgate and Unilever. They are obsessed with efficiencies and processes. They leverage their financial resources. My business career is characterized with a bunch of David versus Goliath encounters.

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

Although that kind of redesign is still required periodically, leaders today are more typically confronted with the challenge of how to find cost efficiencies in certain parts of their organization to invest in other parts of the organization that drive growth. As a result, organization design is no longer just a big bang event.

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