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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

Bureaucracy and distance from the customer are death in an age of volatility—and today’s leading-edge firms know it. Strategy #8: Thrive with Talent. Move away from the traditional matrix organizational model in favor of agile customer-focused teams supported by platform capabilities.

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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

Harvard Business Review

Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. A year into their jobs, how many employees still have the unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they brought with them to their first day on the job? How many still believe they can make a difference?