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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 see this quite a bit and it is challenging when operating in a system where you only see parts of the larger picture. SURESHKUMAR.S SURESHKUMAR.S

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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. Culture needs to vary depending on your business strategy.

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How to Avoid a Business Data Breach

Strategy Driven

The number of attacks and breaches continues to increase exponentially, despite the increasing awareness of better information security. Over 90% of business operations are now stored digitally, so this increase is not surprising. What’s surprising is how so many businesses still take information security lightly.

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What Makes an Organization “Networked”?

Harvard Business Review

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. They favor strict operational alignment within specific functional areas while doing little to foster links between them.

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What Top Sales Teams Have in Common, in 5 Charts

Harvard Business Review

The study results reveal there are 15 significant differences between how high-performing, average, and underperforming sales organizations perceive themselves, measure performance, staff their organizations, and operate. High-performing sales organizations hold their team members to a higher level of accountability.

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