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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline. None of this can be left to chance, allowed to become stale or outsourced to organization­al silos and subcultures, or to outside consultants.

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9 Reasons Your Leadership Development Program is Failing

Nathan Magnuson

companies invest over $2,000 in leadership development initiatives per company leader. Just because an organization has a leadership development program doesn’t mean it’s successful, does it? “Belief in the cause” can’t be outsourced. A recent Bersin study reported that U.S. That’s great news.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

Hence, when (re-)designing the organization structure, they tend to decentralize decision-making, so that decision rights are as close as possible to the people who deal with customers, competitors, front-line employees, and other stakeholders. Decentralization allows immediacy in time and place, hence responsiveness.