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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities?

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Don’t Play with Dead Snakes, and Other Management Advice

Harvard Business Review

During a long and illustrious career that is far from over (you can read all about one of his most recent ventures — building the most direct fiber-optic connection between Chicago and New York – in Chapter One of Michael Lewis’s new book ), Barksdale has become a big believer in the value of the folksy aphorism as management tool.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

Career Bankers Alone Can’t Solve the Financial Industry’s Problems. Congressional leadership included some measures in Dodd-Frank to constrain the Federal Reserve’s power. Three, in particular, have been raised by the administration and the current Republican leadership in Congress, and have some merit.