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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

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. The challenge leaders face is that there is no one perfect culture.

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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

So much so that we see them as “the way things work” and forget that bureaucracies were once innovations too. So matrices, in a sense, led to the worst of both worlds, a cumbersome organizational structure and the inability to adapt to fast changing contexts. The truth is that networks are informal structures.