Remove Finance Remove Leadership Remove Operations Remove Social Capital
article thumbnail

Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Brand-building is a function that business leaders, owners, and general managers – the people responsible for the culture, core operations, and customer experiences of an organization – must drive. Smart companies form brand councils to meet this leadership imperative. It must be driven – and embraced – as an enterprise-wide approach.

Brand 8
article thumbnail

Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time.