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20 Reasons Why Companies Should Do Less Better

In the CEO Afterlife

What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. The added complexity and loss of focus on the Nike brand was a lesson well-learned and it didn’t take Nike long to see the error of their ways. They divested both businesses and discontinued several other products including golf clubs and bags.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

It must be lived by top management as exemplified in their behavior and in the design of their management and human resource policies and practices. Without a set of policies and practices that reflect the human values of love, responsibility, authenticity fairness and trust, a firm has the name but not the game.