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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

And since people ultimately make all the difference, your operating model should define how you manage the assignments and career paths for your difference-making talent. Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? None of these are easy questions. ” he asked.

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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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