October 2012

Who is Accountable for This?

October 11, 2012

How often have you heard this question? Who in their right mind would answer, “Me”? It always seems to have a punitive, blaming quality to it, doesn’t it?

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Is Your Senior Team Willing and Able to Lead Enterprise Change: The Criticality of Top Team Accountability and Alignment

October 11, 2012

“Business is 1% strategy and 99% execution!” a client of ours is fond of saying at every opportunity. What Jim, the CEO of a large, national, multi-format, retail company, means is that he and his team find it relatively straight forward to come up with new and big change ideas, but difficult to mobilize the […]

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Changing the Business, while Running the Business

October 11, 2012

How many organizations have we seen hit the wall and get into big trouble because they didn’t change the business while they were running it? Life changed around them, but they didn’t respond effectively and/or proactively to those changes. General Motors is a good recent example of this. How did GM let this happen, and […]

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