Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

One of us recently had the opportunity to test the concept of mindful strategy with a group of middle managers and senior executives from the legal, advertising, finance, and non-profit sectors in the Bay Area. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Yet, according to Donald Sull’s research in the March issue of HBR, almost half of top executives cannot connect the dots between their company’s strategic priorities; and two out of three middle managers say they simply do not understand their strategic direction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

Even middle management has its value, he says. When Google founder and CEO Larry Page cut out a bunch of managers in an effort to reduce "friction," the result was frustration and confusion. At Zappos , the holacracy idea didn''t bubble up from the bottom, after all; it''s being imposed from the top.

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