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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down.

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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

As Moises Naim describes in The End of Power , travelling around the vast country for three months, he believed that it represented “the last time in the long-lasting history of mankind that so favourable conditions for a free and grand development will exist.” The truth is that networks are informal structures.

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10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them

Terry Starbucker

Get out in the field – engage with your teammates, roll up your sleeves, talk to customers – especially if there’s distance between you and your actual operations. I plan to write about the power of positive thought on my blog in the coming weeks. DON’T be held hostage in the Ivory Tower! SURESHKUMAR.S