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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” What is the business’s value proposition and it sources of competitive advantage?

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Good Leaders Don't Use Bad Words

Harvard Business Review

At Australia''s Amplify Festival , former IBM Chairman/Europe Hans-Ulrich Maerki observed that one of the most important organizational and cultural shifts that occurred in the aftermath of IBM''s $3.5 Linguistics should be a source of design insight and competitive advantage.

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