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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
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Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBusinesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have... -
How Generative AI Will Change Sales
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Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
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The Most Successful Approaches to Leading Organizational Change
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An Agile Approach to Change Management
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The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade
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6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation
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What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?
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What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs
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Protecting DEI Progress When Budgets Are Tight
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Communities of Practice:Â The Organizational Frontier
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First, Let’s Fire All the Managers
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Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleToday layoffs have become companies' default response to the challenges created by advances in technology and global competition. Yet research shows that... -
What Will Management Look Like in the Next 100 Years?
Global Business Big IdeaIn recent years, the practice of management has often felt like an exercise in putting out fires. Facing one social, environmental, and economic crisis... -
Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow
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A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek
Flex time Big IdeaWorking less can reduce employees’ stress — without sacrificing productivity. -
What Every Leader Needs to Know About Followers
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Driving Organizational Change — Without Abandoning Tradition
Change management Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from.
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Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Strategic Capital Management, LLC, is a hedge fund that is planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers recently... -
Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Traces the development of a Swedish furniture retailer under the leadership of an innovative and unconventional entrepreneur whose approaches redefine... -
Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital
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Airbus vs. Boeing (J): New Plane Developments (2016)
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Dalian Xinhe Leather Clothing: Strategic Transformation in Response to COVID-19
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HP, Inc. Beyond 2021: Pursuing Strategic Renewal for Growth
Management Case Study8.95View Details On November 2, 2021, Enrique Lores, CEO of HP, Inc., ended the first online huddle of the week with his executive leadership team. The day was an historic... -
WeaveTech: High Performance Change
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Corning Glass Works International (C2)
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Tata Motors: Compensation Restructuring
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Peter Browning and Continental White Cap, Video
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Jeepers! Inc. in 2000
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The UK Government Digital Service
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emmtrix Technologies: Patent Negotiations in High-Tech Academic Spinoffs
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Argo Interactive (A): Surviving in the Roller-Coasting Mobile Industry
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Industry Note on Personal Computers, Managed Print Services in the Distributied Workplace and 3D Printing in 2021
Management Case Study8.95View Details On November 2, 2021, Enrique Lores, CEO of HP, Inc., ended the first online huddle of the week with his executive leadership team. The day was an historic... -
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.--1988
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Transformation of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. 2005 (B)
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Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal
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UAL, 2004: Pulling Out of Bankruptcy
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THE ANTIBIOTIC ECOSYSTEM CONUNDRUM
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The invention of antibiotics increased the average lifespan by two decades, though WHO warns that antibiotic resistant will become the most common death...
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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBusinesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have... -
How Generative AI Will Change Sales
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleMicrosoft and Salesforce have already rolled out sales-focused versions of this powerful tool. -
Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
Organizational change Digital ArticleA Gartner survey found that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022. -
The Most Successful Approaches to Leading Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA closer look at four distinct ways to drive transformation. -
An Agile Approach to Change Management
Agile project management Digital ArticleSix lessons on moving quickly under pressure. -
The Top 20 Business Transformations of the Last Decade
Organizational Development Digital ArticleNetflix, Adobe, and Amazon top the list. -
6 Key Levers of a Successful Organizational Transformation
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLeaders, don't overlook your employees' emotional journey. -
What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?
Leadership Digital ArticleWhat leaders need to know to change orgs for the better.