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GE’s Culture Challenge After Welch and Immelt

Harvard Business Review

Our employees clearly told us that our organization had to shift its culture — that we had to become more decentralized and simpler to do business with, and had to delegate power to where the action is. Managing organizations Change management Human resource management Organizational culture'

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9 Reasons Your Leadership Development Program is Failing

Nathan Magnuson

“Belief in the cause” can’t be outsourced. Still others may revolve around an decentralized model (such as a mentoring program). Unless someone somewhere has the heart for leadership – and the drive to build the infrastructure – your LDP will just become another project.