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Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Therefore, the ability to manage operation and the capacity to inspire employees is no longer enough. Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. To do that, he would need to integrate operations at a scale no one had thought possible.

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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. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It

Harvard Business Review

And that’s precisely what gets us in trouble as we hit career transitions that call for new and different ways of leading. In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies.

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

Harvard Business Review

It’s natural to feel slightly paranoid, says John Lees, UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code. ” Your goal is to get “an objective view” of how much of the firing “was about you and how much of it was about external factors.” In writing, focus on the positive. I processed it.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Promise Zones Initiative , which awarded over $30 million last year to grantees to achieve objectives such as developing a complete continuum of cradle-to-career strategies and breaking down silos between community agencies. Proactive and population-based.