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Why You Should Question Your Culture

Harvard Business Review

Organizational culture powerfully influences a company's performance — or at least we say so. To fix this problem, the team asked themselves some simple questions about the decision-making culture: To what extent are decisions currently made by consensus or by the CEO (on a scale of 1-10)?

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. It's still very difficult to assess the positive influence of an aging leader whose physical skills have demonstrably diminished but whose acuity and character gets everyone on the team to step up their game. Today, that's no longer true.