Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

For much of the last century, the most prominent strategies of large corporations were vertical integration and diversification, pursued within their traditional boundaries, or inward bound. Now organizations employ strategies to take them outward bound utilizing any of six different arrangements. How this has changed.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Contrast that with complicated challenges which are the domain of the expert: a known solution exists, and it can be reliably and successfully applied as needed by someone who knows what they’re doing. Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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