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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting

N2Growth Blog

their personal span of control) and the organization’s existing “ways of doing business” These approaches produce plans that have blinders on. Firms need rigor and discipline in their planning methodologies and a way to maintain and adjust the plan long after the consultants have collected their fees and are gone.

Strategy 150
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HR Value Delivery: Power of HR to Transform Organizations

HR Digest

The Evolution of HR Value Creation, Delivery, and Capture HR value creation has come a long way from simply trying to secure a seat at the table. Organization: Cultivating the Right Capabilities for Success HR’s role in shaping the organization goes beyond traditional HR demographics such as the number of levels or span of control.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

The term “paradigm shift” is a well-worn term. He was responsible for ten hospitals spanning the West Coast to the Indian Ocean and health care for eight hundred thousand patients. Given that span of control, during the two years I was chief of staff, you can imagine the number of times I had to give him bad news.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.” ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation. Tom Watson, Jr.