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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Tom Watson, Jr. Cut layers.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. And he thought independence was a great motivator.