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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage. It also enhances the young leaders’ commitment to stay with the firm.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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HR Expert on Digital Workplace Challenges, Employee Engagement & More

HR Digest

Especially with forecasts predicting a potential economic slowdown, in 2020 we will see the C-suite grasp ethical practices as a competitive advantage, revamping and restructuring corporate social responsibility programs and efforts to demonstrate their commitment.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business Review

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. The competitive landscape brings opportunities for new structural efficiencies, but high rates of innovation mean that sources of competitive advantage are often short-lived as new disruptors continually emerge.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

So nobody was shocked when, for a recent strategy project, Masala passed over many well-known consultancies that he viewed as having already “made a science out of their way of thinking of restructuring.” He was looking for an outside team to help Kuoni approach this question, but there were a few ground rules.