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Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. Before long, Blockbuster was gaining nearly half of all new subscribers in the online rental market. Today, we must learn how to shape networks around a shared purpose.

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How to Apply for a New Job After You’ve Been Fired

Harvard Business Review

After you’ve been fired, getting back into the job market can be difficult. It’s natural to feel slightly paranoid, says John Lees, UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code. “Candidates don’t want to hear this, but often they go into the market too soon,” says Lees.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Crucially, the operating model also must define ways of working and behaviors that actually bring your company’s strategy to life.