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Successful Leadership Is Not One Size Fits All

Coaching Tip

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. Many-market organization. Single market. There's no doubt this is a man with vision and drive. GE and HCL. For GE, the situation is different.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Competition Leadership Retail' Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? So what happened? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

But the decentralization debate was different. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. The lack of control meant that the leadership team had little say in how the Contect brand was being managed at a local level. Vera’s Perspective.